Name: Damika Barr
Current city: Bay Area, CA
Current job: Public Policy and Government Relations Lead, Verily Life Sciences (An Alphabet Company)
Past job: Regulatory Compliance Counsel (Health), Lyft, Inc.; Public Policy Manager, AmeriHealth Caritas
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Name: Harini Gokul
Current city: Medina, WA
Current job: Amazon Web Services, Customer Solutions Leader
Previous job: Microsoft, Director, Partner Cloud Strategy
Name: Brandie Nonnecke
Current city: Berkeley, CA
Current job: Director, CITRIS Policy Lab, UC Berkeley
Name: Joseph Okpaku
Current city: Oakland, CA
Current job: Chief Policy Officer, Booster Fuels
Past job: VP Government Relations, Lyft
Name: Lisa Dyer
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Director of Policy, Partnership on AI
Past job: Director, Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of State
Name: Arvin Patel
Current city: San Jose, CA
Current job: EVP and Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Rovi Corporation, a TiVo Company
Past job: Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Technicolor
Name: June Williams
Current city: Oakland, CA
Current job: Policy Advisor, Trust & Safety at Google
Past job: San Francisco District Director for U.S. Senator Kamala Harris
Name: Kay Firth-Butterfield
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Chief Head of AI at World Economic Forum
Past job: Chief AI Ethics Officer at World Economic Forum
Name: Julie Kearney
Current city: Mountain View, CA
Current job: Vice President of Communications Regulatory Affairs and Policy at Twilio Inc.
Past job: Global Head of Communications Regulation and Policy, Loon (an Alphabet company); VP of Regulatory Affairs, CTA; Director of Policy and Legislation, NPR
Name: Susan Gonzales
City: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Founder & CEO, AIandYou.org
Past job: Facebook’s Director of Community Engagement
Name: Michael Sellitto
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Head of Geopolitics and Security at Anthropic
Past job: Founding Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence ; Director for Cybersecurity Policy, National Security Council
Name: Jennifer Pahlka
Current city: Oakland, CA and San Francisco, CA
Current job: Founder, Code for America
Past job: U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Name: Congressman Jerry McNerney
Current city: Stockton, VA
Current job: United States Congressman & Co-Chair of the House AI Caucus
Past job: Wind Energy Engineer
Name: AJ Shankar
Current city: Berkeley, CA
Current job: CEO of Everlaw
Past job: Co-founder/CTO, Engineer, Grad Student
Name: Anju Choudhary
Current city: Burlingame, CA
Current job: Global Head of Learning and Development, NextRoll, Inc.
Past job: Global leader: Learning and Diversity at UST Global; Senior Director Career Development and Delivery Excellence at IBM
Name: Sophia Chang
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Chief Clinical Informatics Officer at Clover Health
Past job: Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at CareMore Health Plan
Name: Ginny Fahs
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Co-Founder & Executive Director, #MovingForward
Past job: Software Engineer, Uber
Name: Joseph Brandifino
Current city: Los Angeles, CA
Current job: Manager, Risk & Intelligence at Netflix
Past job: Central Intelligence Agency, National Clandestine Service, Operations Officer
Name: David Mack
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: SVP Policy and Public Affairs, Eaze
Past job: Senior Director of Public Affairs, Lyft
Name: Marco Zappacosta
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: CEO and Co-founder, Thumbtack
Past job: Thumbtack is my first job