TheBridge Leaders Directory Summer Highlights

Name: Nicole Tisdale
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Founder & Principal, Advocacy Blueprints
Past job: Director for Legislative Affairs at National Security Council, The White House; Staff Director and Counsel, Intelligence & Counterterrorism Subcommittee; US House Homeland Security Committee

Name: Nicole Isaac
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Director of North America Policy at LinkedIn
Past job: Head of U.S. Public Policy

Name: Joseph Okpaku
Current city: Oakland, CA
Current job: Chief Policy Officer, Booster Fuels
Past job: VP Government Relations, Lyft

Name: Suzan DelBene
Current city: Medina, WA
Current job: U.S. Congresswoman to Washington’s first district
Past job: VP of drugstore.com, CEO of Nimble Technology, VP of Mobile Communications at Microsoft, Strategic Advisor at Global Partnerships, Director - Washington State Department of Revenue

Name: Jessica Szmajda
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CTO, Axios
Past job: CTO, Optoro

Name: Lucina Di Meco 
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Global Fellow at The Wilson Center and Director of Girls' Education at Room to Read
Past job: Senior Manager, Vital Voices

Name: Josh Mendelsohn
Current city: New York, NY
Current job: Managing Partner, Hangar
Past job: Founder, Hattery

Name: Rebecca Yang
Current city: Seattle, WA
Current job: Business Advisor, Worldwide Public Sector, U.S. Education & State and Local Government
Past job: Global Operations, Facebook; US Diplomat, US Department of State

Name: Martin Rauchbauer
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Tech Diplomacy Fellow with the DiploFoundation; Former Co-Director of Open Austria
Past job: Director Deutsches Haus at NYU

Name: Taylor Bennett
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Global Head of Public Affairs, Lime
Past job: Pandora, ofo, Uber, Edelman

Name: Olya Gurevich
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Marvelous.ai
Past job: Engineering Manager, Apple Siri

Name: Chandler Morse
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Vice President, Corporate Affairs at Workday
Past job: Chief of Staff for Senator Jeff Flake

Name: Terren Klein
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: CEO & Co-Founder, College Pulse
Past job:Psychology Researcher, Dartmouth College; Research Associate, Public Religion Research Institute

Name: Jesse Blumenthal
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Vice President, Technology & Innovation at Stand Together
Past job: Director of Client Strategy at Engage, Public Affairs Manager at the American Enterprise Institute

Name: Janaye Ingram
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of National Partnerships, Airbnb
Past job: National Executive Director, National Action Network

Name: Alex Wagner
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
Past jobs: Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Army, adjunct professor at Georgetown law, policy development at Uber, IP and first amendment lawyer, reporter

Name: Steve Boms
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: President, Allon Advocacy
Past job: Vice President, Government Affairs, Envestnet Yodlee

Name: Monique Meche
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Vice President, Global Public Policy and Philanthropy at Twitter
Past job: Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, Waymo; Vice President, Public Policy, Netflix

Name: Audrey Henson
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO and Founder of College to Congress
Past job: Hill intern turned Staffer, campaign junkie and a brief stint in the private sector at a tech company, Fiscal Note

Name: Phaedra Chrousos
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Chief Strategy Officer for The Libra Group
Past job: Commissioner of the Technology Transformation Service for the Obama Administration

Name: Ariella Steinhorn

Current city: Los Angeles and New York City

Current job: Head of Policy Communications at Spin (Ford Smart Mobility)

Past jobs: Head of Communications at Managed by Q, Public Affairs at Uber

Name: Lauren Maffeo
Current city: Bethesda, MD
Current job: Associate Principal Analyst at GetApp, a Gartner company
Past job: Content Specialist at Aha! - a fully remote SaaS company based in Silicon Valley

Name: William Kowalski
Current city: Denver, CO
Current job: Chief Operating Officer, Atomos
Past job: Financial Advisor, The Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James & Associates