Name: Melissa Medina
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Congressional Affairs, Congressional App Challenge
Past job: Legislative Aide, Rep. Ed Royce (CA-39)
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Name: Carolyn Weyforth Glanville
Current city: San Francisco
Current job: Partnership Strategy, Development & Event Marketing at Flipboard
Past job: Political communications & Chief of Staff for the Jonas Brothers & Demi Lovato's management company.
Name: Talia Goldstein
Current city: Los Angeles, CA
Current job: CEO and Founder Three Day Rule
Past job: Producer, E! Entertainment
Name: Charles Melton
Current city: San Francisco
Current job: Public Policy Manager - Turo
Past job: Director, Government Relations and Tax Policy - Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Name: Amy Dacey
Current city: Washington DC
Current job: Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Issue Management, GM of MWWPR DC office
Past job: CEO of the Democratic National Committee
Name: Bergen Kenny
Current city: San Francisco
Current job: CEO, SpeakEasy Political
Past job: Senior Vice President, Storefront Political Media. Long time Hill staffer, political consultant and campaign manager.
Name: Alex Byers
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Strategic Communications, The Glover Park Group
Past job: Tech reporter, POLITICO
Name: Emily Emery
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Manager - Government Relations and Law Enforcement
Past job: Non-profit and political fundraising, and before that as an LC for Senator Tom Harkin (dating myself with that one)
Kevin King
Current city: Washington D.C.
Current job: Marketing & Communications Lead at Quorum
Past job: 1776
Name: Aparajitha Vadlamannati
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Policy Associate, Hack Reactor
Past job: Assistant Director, Strategic Foresight at the Atlantic Council
Carrie Sheffield
Current city: New York City
Current job: Founder, Bold
Past job: Contributor, Forbes; Credit analyst, Goldman Sachs; Bond analyst, Moody's Investors Service; Founding reporter, POLITICO; Editorial writer, The Washington Times
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Name: Heather Wilson
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: EVP/Managing Director, National Crisis Management & Strategic Communications for MWW
Past job: Managing Director, Head of the San Francisco office for Abernathy MacGregor
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Name: Yuri Beckelman
Current city: Washington DC
Current job: Deputy Chief of Staff - Office of Congressman Mark Takano (CA-41)
Past job: Been on the hill for ten years.
Name: John Murray
Current city: Washington, DC & Seattle, WA
Current job: Partner, Monument Policy Group
Past job: House Majority Leader, Founder YG Action Fund and Network, President JAM Strategies, PhRMA, PCMA, AHIP, Burson-Marsteller, Freddie Mac
Name: Nika Nour
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Head of Public Affairs and Strategic Advisor to the CEO - Entertainment Software Association
Past job: Director, Communications and Creative Strategies - Internet Association
Name: Garrett Johnson
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current Job: Co-founder, Lincoln Network
Past Job: Co-founder, SendHub
Name: Rebecca Mark
Current city: San Francisco, CA & Washington, DC
Current job: Head of Government Relations for Cruise Automation
Past job: Director of Coalitions/ Senior Adviser, House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Federal Affairs Manager for Microsoft
Name: Daniel Schuman
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Policy Director at Demand Progress and co-founder/director of the Congressional Data Coalition; fellow at CodeX: the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Name: Zvika Krieger
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Director of Responsible Innovation at Facebook
Past job: Co-Lead the World Economic Forum’s new Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco; U.S. Department of State Representative to Silicon Valley (based in California); Director of the U.S. State Department’s innovation lab in Washington DC; Senior Strategist at the Department of Defense