Alan Davidson
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director
Alan Davidson is an Internet policy expert with over 20 years of experience as an executive, public interest advocate, technologist, and attorney. He was most recently a Senior Advisor at the Mozilla Foundation, a global nonprofit that promotes openness, innovation, and participation on the Internet. He was previously Mozilla’s Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security, where he led public policy and privacy teams promoting an open Internet and a healthy web. Alan served in the Obama-Biden Administration as the first Director of Digital Economy at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He started Google’s public policy office in Washington, D.C., leading government relations and policy in North and South America for seven years until 2012.
Alan has been a long-time leader in the Internet nonprofit community, serving as Director of New America’s Open Technology Institute where he worked to promote equitable broadband access and adoption. As Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Alan was an advocate for civil liberties and human rights online in some of the earliest Internet policy debates. Alan currently resides with his family in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Yale Law School and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director
Alan Davidson is an Internet policy expert with over 20 years of experience as an executive, public interest advocate, technologist, and attorney. He was most recently a Senior Advisor at the Mozilla Foundation, a global nonprofit that promotes openness, innovation, and participation on the Internet. He was previously Mozilla’s Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security, where he led public policy and privacy teams promoting an open Internet and a healthy web. Alan served in the Obama-Biden Administration as the first Director of Digital Economy at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He started Google’s public policy office in Washington, D.C., leading government relations and policy in North and South America for seven years until 2012.
Alan has been a long-time leader in the Internet nonprofit community, serving as Director of New America’s Open Technology Institute where he worked to promote equitable broadband access and adoption. As Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Alan was an advocate for civil liberties and human rights online in some of the earliest Internet policy debates. Alan currently resides with his family in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Yale Law School and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Alexandra Givens
Center for Democracy & Technology
President and CEO
Alexandra Reeve Givens is the CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to protect civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age. She is a frequent public commentator on ways to protect users’ online privacy and access to information, and to ensure emerging technologies advance human rights and democratic values.
At CDT, Alex leads an international team of lawyers and technologists shaping technology policy, governance and design. CDT advocates to policymakers and the courts in the U.S. and Europe, engages with companies to improve their policies and product designs, and shapes public opinion on major tech policy issues.
Alex previously served in the United States Senate, as the chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee covering innovation and consumer protection. Prior to joining CDT, she was the founding Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, where she set the Institute’s research agenda, and directed its public convenings, research activities, and strategic development. Alex began her career as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, and taught for nine years as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law and Georgetown Law.
Alex serves as Vice Chair of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. You can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Center for Democracy & Technology
President and CEO
Alexandra Reeve Givens is the CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to protect civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age. She is a frequent public commentator on ways to protect users’ online privacy and access to information, and to ensure emerging technologies advance human rights and democratic values.
At CDT, Alex leads an international team of lawyers and technologists shaping technology policy, governance and design. CDT advocates to policymakers and the courts in the U.S. and Europe, engages with companies to improve their policies and product designs, and shapes public opinion on major tech policy issues.
Alex previously served in the United States Senate, as the chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee covering innovation and consumer protection. Prior to joining CDT, she was the founding Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, where she set the Institute’s research agenda, and directed its public convenings, research activities, and strategic development. Alex began her career as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, and taught for nine years as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law and Georgetown Law.
Alex serves as Vice Chair of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. You can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Ari Cohn
TechFreedom
Free Speech Counsel
Ari Cohn is an attorney with more than a decade of experience in First Amendment and defamation law. As Free Speech Counsel at TechFreedom, he works to defend the First Amendment, innovation, and the vibrant, open Internet that has put the world and all of its knowledge at our fingertips. He advocates before legislators, regulators, the courts, and the general public to protect digital civil liberties and ensure that technology is given the opportunity to continue advancing the human condition and democratic principles. In his private capacity, Ari maintains a small pro bono practice to defend individuals from abusive litigation aimed at dissuading or punishing the exercise of First Amendment rights.
Prior to joining TechFreedom, Ari was the director of the Individual Rights Defense Program at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), where he managed the organization's direct advocacy and guided the organization to a record number of free speech victories on behalf of college students and faculty members across the United States. Ari has also previously served as an attorney with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and as a litigation associate at the Chicago office of Mayer Brown LLP, where he represented large multinational companies in complex litigation matters.
A sought-after communicator on free speech and technology policy issues, Ari is regularly interviewed for print, radio, and television, and speaks at conferences, continuing legal education programs, and other events across the U.S. and abroad.
Ari earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School, and is licensed to practice in Illinois.
TechFreedom
Free Speech Counsel
Ari Cohn is an attorney with more than a decade of experience in First Amendment and defamation law. As Free Speech Counsel at TechFreedom, he works to defend the First Amendment, innovation, and the vibrant, open Internet that has put the world and all of its knowledge at our fingertips. He advocates before legislators, regulators, the courts, and the general public to protect digital civil liberties and ensure that technology is given the opportunity to continue advancing the human condition and democratic principles. In his private capacity, Ari maintains a small pro bono practice to defend individuals from abusive litigation aimed at dissuading or punishing the exercise of First Amendment rights.
Prior to joining TechFreedom, Ari was the director of the Individual Rights Defense Program at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), where he managed the organization's direct advocacy and guided the organization to a record number of free speech victories on behalf of college students and faculty members across the United States. Ari has also previously served as an attorney with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and as a litigation associate at the Chicago office of Mayer Brown LLP, where he represented large multinational companies in complex litigation matters.
A sought-after communicator on free speech and technology policy issues, Ari is regularly interviewed for print, radio, and television, and speaks at conferences, continuing legal education programs, and other events across the U.S. and abroad.
Ari earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School, and is licensed to practice in Illinois.
Arvind Narayanan
Princeton University
Computer Specialist
Arvind Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He leads the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan co-created a Massive Open Online Course and textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies which has been used in over 150 courses worldwide. His recent work has shown how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. Narayanan is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), twice recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award, and thrice recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.
Princeton University
Computer Specialist
Arvind Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He leads the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan co-created a Massive Open Online Course and textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies which has been used in over 150 courses worldwide. His recent work has shown how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. Narayanan is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), twice recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award, and thrice recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.
Ash Kazaryan
Stand Together Trust
Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace
Ashkhen Kazaryan is a tech policy expert. She manages and develops policy projects on free speech, content moderation, surveillance reform and the intersection of constitutional rights and technology. She is Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace at Stand Together. She leads the development and execution of ST’s strategy to both defend free speech online and to promote a culture of pluralism via innovations in how we gather online. Prior to that she was Content Policy Manager on the Content Regulation team at Meta, covering North and Latin America, and was also its policy lead on Section 230. Before that she was the Director of civil liberties at TechFreedom from July 2016 till November 2020. At TechFreedom she also managed outreach and coalition building for the organization and hosted The Tech Policy Podcast. Ashkhen is regularly featured as an expert commentator in news outlets across television, radio, podcasts, and print and digital publications including CNBC, BBC, FOX DC, Newsy, Politico, Axios, The Information, Protocol, The Washington Examiner and many others.
Kazaryan received her Specialist in Law degree summa cum laude from Lomonosov MSU in 2012, Master of Law Degree from Yale Law School in 2016 and is completing her PhD in Law at the Law School of Lomonosov Moscow State University (thesis on Legal Regulation of Art Markets).
At Yale Law she served as an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology while also being Co-Chair of the Public Interest Fellowship. Prior to that Ashkhen worked as the leading legal analyst / law clerk at The High Intellectual Property Court. In 2013-2014 she was a Fox Fellow at Yale. She is a proud supporter of New England Patriots and Broadway musical enthusiast.
Stand Together Trust
Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace
Ashkhen Kazaryan is a tech policy expert. She manages and develops policy projects on free speech, content moderation, surveillance reform and the intersection of constitutional rights and technology. She is Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace at Stand Together. She leads the development and execution of ST’s strategy to both defend free speech online and to promote a culture of pluralism via innovations in how we gather online. Prior to that she was Content Policy Manager on the Content Regulation team at Meta, covering North and Latin America, and was also its policy lead on Section 230. Before that she was the Director of civil liberties at TechFreedom from July 2016 till November 2020. At TechFreedom she also managed outreach and coalition building for the organization and hosted The Tech Policy Podcast. Ashkhen is regularly featured as an expert commentator in news outlets across television, radio, podcasts, and print and digital publications including CNBC, BBC, FOX DC, Newsy, Politico, Axios, The Information, Protocol, The Washington Examiner and many others.
Kazaryan received her Specialist in Law degree summa cum laude from Lomonosov MSU in 2012, Master of Law Degree from Yale Law School in 2016 and is completing her PhD in Law at the Law School of Lomonosov Moscow State University (thesis on Legal Regulation of Art Markets).
At Yale Law she served as an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology while also being Co-Chair of the Public Interest Fellowship. Prior to that Ashkhen worked as the leading legal analyst / law clerk at The High Intellectual Property Court. In 2013-2014 she was a Fox Fellow at Yale. She is a proud supporter of New England Patriots and Broadway musical enthusiast.
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Dave Willner
Stanford
Non-Resident Fellow, The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies
Dave Willner started his career in at Facebook helping users reset their passwords in 2008. He went on to join the company’s original team of moderators, write Facebook’s first systematic content policies, and build the team that maintains those rules to this day. After leaving Facebook in 2013, he consulted for several start ups before joining Airbnb in 2015 to build the Community Policy team. While there he also took on responsibility for the Quality and Training for the Trust team. After leaving Airbnb in 2021, he began working with OpenAI, first as a consultant and then as the company's first Head of Trust and Safety.
Stanford
Non-Resident Fellow, The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies
Dave Willner started his career in at Facebook helping users reset their passwords in 2008. He went on to join the company’s original team of moderators, write Facebook’s first systematic content policies, and build the team that maintains those rules to this day. After leaving Facebook in 2013, he consulted for several start ups before joining Airbnb in 2015 to build the Community Policy team. While there he also took on responsibility for the Quality and Training for the Trust team. After leaving Airbnb in 2021, he began working with OpenAI, first as a consultant and then as the company's first Head of Trust and Safety.
Elham Tabassi
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Senior Research Scientist
Elham Tabassi is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Associate Director for Emerging Technologies in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). She also leads NIST’s Trustworthy and Responsible AI program that aims to cultivate trust in the design, development, and use of AI technologies.
As the ITL’s Associate Director for Emerging Technology, Elham assists NIST leadership and management at all levels in determining future strategic direction for research, development, standards, testing and evaluation in the areas of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. She also coordinates interaction related to artificial intelligence with the U.S. research community, U.S. industrial community, international standards community, and other federal agencies; and provides leadership within NIST in the use of AI to solve scientific and engineering problems arising in measurement science and related use-inspired applications of AI.
Elham has been working on various machine learning and computer vision research projects with applications in biometrics evaluation and standards since she joined NIST in 1999. She is a member of the National AI Resource Research Task Force, vice-chair of OECD working party on AI Governance, Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security, and a fellow of Washington Academy of Sciences.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Senior Research Scientist
Elham Tabassi is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Associate Director for Emerging Technologies in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). She also leads NIST’s Trustworthy and Responsible AI program that aims to cultivate trust in the design, development, and use of AI technologies.
As the ITL’s Associate Director for Emerging Technology, Elham assists NIST leadership and management at all levels in determining future strategic direction for research, development, standards, testing and evaluation in the areas of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. She also coordinates interaction related to artificial intelligence with the U.S. research community, U.S. industrial community, international standards community, and other federal agencies; and provides leadership within NIST in the use of AI to solve scientific and engineering problems arising in measurement science and related use-inspired applications of AI.
Elham has been working on various machine learning and computer vision research projects with applications in biometrics evaluation and standards since she joined NIST in 1999. She is a member of the National AI Resource Research Task Force, vice-chair of OECD working party on AI Governance, Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security, and a fellow of Washington Academy of Sciences.
Ellen Goodman
Rutgers Law School
Distinguished Professor
Professor Goodman specializes in information policy law. Her research interests include smart cities, algorithmic governance, freedom of expression, platform policies, communications architectures, media and advertising law, and transparency policy. She is Co-Director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL). She blogs at riipl.rutgers.edu and at medium.com, and has written for the The Guardian, Protego Press, Democracy, and Slate.
Professor Goodman is currently on leave to serve as Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce. She has served as a Senior Fellow at the Digital Innovation & Democracy Institute at the German Marshall Fund and has received grants from the Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for various projects involving new models of platform regulation and transparency, digital public media and democracy, and algorithmic system justice. She has also advised a number of cities on responsible tech deployment. She served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the FCC and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Carey Law School, Annenberg School of Communication, and the Wharton School, as well as the London School of Economics.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2003, Professor Goodman was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling LLP and served as Of Counsel with the firm until 2009. Professor Goodman clerked for Judge Norma L. Shapiro on the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after graduating from Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She has three children.
Rutgers Law School
Distinguished Professor
Professor Goodman specializes in information policy law. Her research interests include smart cities, algorithmic governance, freedom of expression, platform policies, communications architectures, media and advertising law, and transparency policy. She is Co-Director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL). She blogs at riipl.rutgers.edu and at medium.com, and has written for the The Guardian, Protego Press, Democracy, and Slate.
Professor Goodman is currently on leave to serve as Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce. She has served as a Senior Fellow at the Digital Innovation & Democracy Institute at the German Marshall Fund and has received grants from the Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for various projects involving new models of platform regulation and transparency, digital public media and democracy, and algorithmic system justice. She has also advised a number of cities on responsible tech deployment. She served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the FCC and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Carey Law School, Annenberg School of Communication, and the Wharton School, as well as the London School of Economics.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2003, Professor Goodman was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling LLP and served as Of Counsel with the firm until 2009. Professor Goodman clerked for Judge Norma L. Shapiro on the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after graduating from Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She has three children.
Emma Llansó
Center for Democracy and Technology
Director, Free Expression Project
Emma Llansó is the Director of CDT’s Free Expression Project, where she works to promote law and policy that support Internet users’ free expression rights in the United States, Europe, and around the world. Emma’s work spans many subjects, including human trafficking, privacy and online harassment, online child safety, terrorist propaganda, and disinformation. In particular, she focuses on the capabilities and limitations of machine learning techniques and other forms of automation in content moderation and analysis of online speech.
Emma leads CDT’s work focused on protecting fundamental rights to freedom of expression and preserving strong intermediary liability protections as a core element of legal frameworks that support free expression online. This work includes legislative advocacy, amicus activity, and engagement in multistakeholder initiatives. Emma frequently shares her expertise on panels, roundtables, and other events, as well as through interviews in print, radio, television, and online.
Emma also works with user-generated content services and other stakeholders to develop content policy best practices, including meaningful transparency, appeals, and remedy procedures. Among other projects, Emma was deeply involved in the development of the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.
Emma is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network, the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, and has served on the Board of the Global Network Initiative. Emma also represents CDT on the Twitch Safety Advisory Council and the Twitter Trust & Safety Council.
Emma earned a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from Yale Law School, and is a member of the New York State Bar. Emma joined CDT in 2009.
Center for Democracy and Technology
Director, Free Expression Project
Emma Llansó is the Director of CDT’s Free Expression Project, where she works to promote law and policy that support Internet users’ free expression rights in the United States, Europe, and around the world. Emma’s work spans many subjects, including human trafficking, privacy and online harassment, online child safety, terrorist propaganda, and disinformation. In particular, she focuses on the capabilities and limitations of machine learning techniques and other forms of automation in content moderation and analysis of online speech.
Emma leads CDT’s work focused on protecting fundamental rights to freedom of expression and preserving strong intermediary liability protections as a core element of legal frameworks that support free expression online. This work includes legislative advocacy, amicus activity, and engagement in multistakeholder initiatives. Emma frequently shares her expertise on panels, roundtables, and other events, as well as through interviews in print, radio, television, and online.
Emma also works with user-generated content services and other stakeholders to develop content policy best practices, including meaningful transparency, appeals, and remedy procedures. Among other projects, Emma was deeply involved in the development of the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.
Emma is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network, the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, and has served on the Board of the Global Network Initiative. Emma also represents CDT on the Twitch Safety Advisory Council and the Twitter Trust & Safety Council.
Emma earned a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from Yale Law School, and is a member of the New York State Bar. Emma joined CDT in 2009.
James Grimmelmann
Cornell law School and Cornell Tech
Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law
James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He studies how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power. He helps lawyers and technologists understand each other, applying ideas from computer science to problems in law and vice versa.
He is the author of the casebook Internet Law: Cases and Problems and of over fifty scholarly articles and essays on digital copyright, content moderation, search engine regulation, online governance, privacy on social networks,, and other topics in computer and Internet law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College. Before law school, he worked a programmer for Microsoft; after graduation, he clerked for a federal appellate judge. He is an affiliated fellow of the Yale Information Society Project. He previously taught at New York Law School, Georgetown, and the University of Maryland.
Cornell law School and Cornell Tech
Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law
James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He studies how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power. He helps lawyers and technologists understand each other, applying ideas from computer science to problems in law and vice versa.
He is the author of the casebook Internet Law: Cases and Problems and of over fifty scholarly articles and essays on digital copyright, content moderation, search engine regulation, online governance, privacy on social networks,, and other topics in computer and Internet law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College. Before law school, he worked a programmer for Microsoft; after graduation, he clerked for a federal appellate judge. He is an affiliated fellow of the Yale Information Society Project. He previously taught at New York Law School, Georgetown, and the University of Maryland.
Josh Goldstein
Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Research Fellow
Josh A. Goldstein is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. Prior to joining CSET, he was a pre- and postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory. His research has included investigating covert influence operations on social media platforms, studying the effects of foreign interference on democratic societies, and exploring how emerging technologies will impact the future of propaganda campaigns. He holds an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Clarendon Scholar, and an A.B. in Government from Harvard College.
Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Research Fellow
Josh A. Goldstein is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. Prior to joining CSET, he was a pre- and postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory. His research has included investigating covert influence operations on social media platforms, studying the effects of foreign interference on democratic societies, and exploring how emerging technologies will impact the future of propaganda campaigns. He holds an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Clarendon Scholar, and an A.B. in Government from Harvard College.
Katie Harbath
Anchor Change
Chief Executive Officer
Katie Harbath is a global leader at the intersection of elections, democracy, and technology. As the chief executive of Anchor Change, she helps clients think through tech policy issues. She is a senior advisor for technology and democracy at the International Republican Institute and is also a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Integrity Institute and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council.
She also writes a weekly newsletter about these issues on Substack called Anchor Change.
Previously, Katie spent 10 years at Facebook. As a director of public policy, she built and led global teams that managed elections and helped government and political figures use the social network to connect with their constituents.
Before Facebook, Katie held senior digital roles at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the DCI Group, as well as multiple campaigns for office.
She is a board member at the National Conference on Citizenship, Democracy Works, R Street and the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
Anchor Change
Chief Executive Officer
Katie Harbath is a global leader at the intersection of elections, democracy, and technology. As the chief executive of Anchor Change, she helps clients think through tech policy issues. She is a senior advisor for technology and democracy at the International Republican Institute and is also a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Integrity Institute and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council.
She also writes a weekly newsletter about these issues on Substack called Anchor Change.
Previously, Katie spent 10 years at Facebook. As a director of public policy, she built and led global teams that managed elections and helped government and political figures use the social network to connect with their constituents.
Before Facebook, Katie held senior digital roles at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the DCI Group, as well as multiple campaigns for office.
She is a board member at the National Conference on Citizenship, Democracy Works, R Street and the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
Kelley Szany
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie
Vice President of Education & Exhibitions
During her over 20-year tenure Szany has become an internationally recognized leader in Holocaust and genocide education. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Holocaust Organizations and Educators Institute for Human Rights. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Illinois Holocaust & Genocide Commission. Szany has won multiple awards for her educational and human rights work, including the Samuel Goldsmith Award from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Damen Award from the Graduate School at Loyola University of Chicago, and the Carl Wilkens Fellowship where she worked alongside national leaders to create and strengthen a permanent anti-genocide constituency through both advocacy work and influence of U.S. policy. Executive Producer and Producer of ten documentary and virtual films on the Holocaust, her work has won a Midwest Emmy and awarded official selections at film festivals across the globe, including Venice International Film Festival and SXSW. Szany is also the author of scores of journalistic pieces and scholarly chapters, with recent publications in Teaching About Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors.
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie
Vice President of Education & Exhibitions
During her over 20-year tenure Szany has become an internationally recognized leader in Holocaust and genocide education. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Holocaust Organizations and Educators Institute for Human Rights. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Illinois Holocaust & Genocide Commission. Szany has won multiple awards for her educational and human rights work, including the Samuel Goldsmith Award from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Damen Award from the Graduate School at Loyola University of Chicago, and the Carl Wilkens Fellowship where she worked alongside national leaders to create and strengthen a permanent anti-genocide constituency through both advocacy work and influence of U.S. policy. Executive Producer and Producer of ten documentary and virtual films on the Holocaust, her work has won a Midwest Emmy and awarded official selections at film festivals across the globe, including Venice International Film Festival and SXSW. Szany is also the author of scores of journalistic pieces and scholarly chapters, with recent publications in Teaching About Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors.
Matthew Gee
BrightHive
Founder, CEO
Matt Gee is an entrepreneur, data scientist, and researcher. He's the co-founder and CEO of BrightHive, a public benefit corporation focused on data sharing and governed analytics. At BrightHive, Matt has worked to advance new forms of responsible data sharing and reuse (e.g. data collaboratives, data trusts, self-sovereign data) as well as applications of Generative AI that make analytics more accessible for everyone. He is a Data and Society Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Knowledge Lab and previously worked as a senior research fellow at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was the co-founder of Data Science for Social Good, the Impact Lab, Recurve, and Dharma.ai. He serves on several nonprofit boards, including Candid and the Chicago Learning Exchange. Matt is originally from Austin, TX, so he also has the requisite band with his brothers, called Governing Bodies. Their biggest gig to date was their sister's wedding.
BrightHive
Founder, CEO
Matt Gee is an entrepreneur, data scientist, and researcher. He's the co-founder and CEO of BrightHive, a public benefit corporation focused on data sharing and governed analytics. At BrightHive, Matt has worked to advance new forms of responsible data sharing and reuse (e.g. data collaboratives, data trusts, self-sovereign data) as well as applications of Generative AI that make analytics more accessible for everyone. He is a Data and Society Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Knowledge Lab and previously worked as a senior research fellow at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was the co-founder of Data Science for Social Good, the Impact Lab, Recurve, and Dharma.ai. He serves on several nonprofit boards, including Candid and the Chicago Learning Exchange. Matt is originally from Austin, TX, so he also has the requisite band with his brothers, called Governing Bodies. Their biggest gig to date was their sister's wedding.
Miranda Bogen
AI Policy Researcher
Miranda Bogen is an independent AI policy researcher. She formerly served as Policy Manager for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at Meta, where she drove responsible AI strategy and efforts across the company. Prior to joining Meta, Miranda was Senior Policy Analyst at Upturn in Washington, DC and was co-chair of the Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Working Group at the Partnership on AI. Her writing and analysis has appeared in publications including the Harvard Business Review, NPR, and Slate, and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, Last Week Tonight, and more. Miranda holds a Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she focused on international technology policy issues, and graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Political Science and Middle Eastern & North African Studies.
AI Policy Researcher
Miranda Bogen is an independent AI policy researcher. She formerly served as Policy Manager for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at Meta, where she drove responsible AI strategy and efforts across the company. Prior to joining Meta, Miranda was Senior Policy Analyst at Upturn in Washington, DC and was co-chair of the Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Working Group at the Partnership on AI. Her writing and analysis has appeared in publications including the Harvard Business Review, NPR, and Slate, and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, Last Week Tonight, and more. Miranda holds a Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she focused on international technology policy issues, and graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Political Science and Middle Eastern & North African Studies.
Nicklas Lundblad
Google DeepMind
Director of Public Policy
Nicklas Lundblad is responsible for Google DeepMind’s public policy strategy and engagement, where he focuses on building a mandate for solving intelligence to accelerate science and benefit humanity. He is a writer, researcher, and public policy expert with more than 20 years of experience leading, building, and developing policy functions at companies including Google and Stripe.
Prior to Google DeepMind, Nicklas was Head of Global Tech Policy at Stripe Inc and has held various roles at Google - the most recent being Head of Global Policy Planning and Vice President of public policy for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Nicklas was previously Vice President for the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in 2009. He has a PhD in informatics, a B.A in Philosophy, and is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. He has written four books on technology and law, the latest being focused on the philosophy of questions. Together with Richard Allan he runs the podcast, Regulate Tech.
Google DeepMind
Director of Public Policy
Nicklas Lundblad is responsible for Google DeepMind’s public policy strategy and engagement, where he focuses on building a mandate for solving intelligence to accelerate science and benefit humanity. He is a writer, researcher, and public policy expert with more than 20 years of experience leading, building, and developing policy functions at companies including Google and Stripe.
Prior to Google DeepMind, Nicklas was Head of Global Tech Policy at Stripe Inc and has held various roles at Google - the most recent being Head of Global Policy Planning and Vice President of public policy for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Nicklas was previously Vice President for the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in 2009. He has a PhD in informatics, a B.A in Philosophy, and is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. He has written four books on technology and law, the latest being focused on the philosophy of questions. Together with Richard Allan he runs the podcast, Regulate Tech.
Renée DiResta
Stanford Internet Observatory
Technical Research Manager
Renée DiResta is the Technical Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a cross disciplinary program of research, teaching and policy engagement for the study of abuse in current information technologies. Renee’s work examines the spread of narratives across social and media networks, how distinct actor types leverage the information ecosystem to exert influence, and how policy, education, and design responses can be used to mitigate manipulative dynamics.
Renée has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations. At the behest of SSCI, she led outside teams investigating both the Russia-linked Internet Research Agency’s multi-year effort to manipulate American society and elections, and the GRU influence campaign deployed alongside its hack-and-leak operations in the 2016 election. Renée is an Ideas contributor at Wired and The Atlantic, an Emerson Fellow, a 2019 Truman National Security Project fellow, a 2019 Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, a 2017 Presidential
Stanford Internet Observatory
Technical Research Manager
Renée DiResta is the Technical Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a cross disciplinary program of research, teaching and policy engagement for the study of abuse in current information technologies. Renee’s work examines the spread of narratives across social and media networks, how distinct actor types leverage the information ecosystem to exert influence, and how policy, education, and design responses can be used to mitigate manipulative dynamics.
Renée has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations. At the behest of SSCI, she led outside teams investigating both the Russia-linked Internet Research Agency’s multi-year effort to manipulate American society and elections, and the GRU influence campaign deployed alongside its hack-and-leak operations in the 2016 election. Renée is an Ideas contributor at Wired and The Atlantic, an Emerson Fellow, a 2019 Truman National Security Project fellow, a 2019 Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, a 2017 Presidential
Rumman Chowdhury
Berkman Klein Center
Responsible AI Fellow
Berkman Klein Center
Responsible AI Fellow
Sal Khan
Khan Academy
Founder & CEO
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. He is the founder of Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in Mountain View, California, co-founder of Schoolhouse.world, a nonprofit that offers free online tutoring, and cofounder of Khan World School, a new nonprofit online school.
Sal’s interest in education began while he was an undergraduate at MIT. While there, he developed math software for children with ADHD and tutored fourth- and seventh-grade public school students. Sal also taught test prep courses for the MCAT and was named Teacher of the Year by a national test prep company. He holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sal founded Khan Academy as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2008. Khan Academy’s platforms include more than 70,000 interactive practice problems as well as videos and articles that cover a range of preK–12 subjects. Khan Academy’s learning system is mastery based, which allows students to master key concepts at a pace that’s right for them while staying at grade level. Khan Academy is piloting an AI guide called Khanmigo that is a tutor and teaching assistant.
Khan Academy partners with more than 500 school districts and schools across the country. Schools use Khan Academy Districts, MAP Accelerator and Khan Academy Kids (for preschool through second grade) to help teachers tailor instruction for each student.
Khan Academy has more than 150 million registered users around the world and has been translated into more than 50 languages. It is used in more than 190 countries.
Sal has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In his book, The One World Schoolhouse, Sal outlines his vision for the future of education.
Sal lives in Mountain View, California, with his wife and three children.
Khan Academy
Founder & CEO
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. He is the founder of Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in Mountain View, California, co-founder of Schoolhouse.world, a nonprofit that offers free online tutoring, and cofounder of Khan World School, a new nonprofit online school.
Sal’s interest in education began while he was an undergraduate at MIT. While there, he developed math software for children with ADHD and tutored fourth- and seventh-grade public school students. Sal also taught test prep courses for the MCAT and was named Teacher of the Year by a national test prep company. He holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sal founded Khan Academy as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2008. Khan Academy’s platforms include more than 70,000 interactive practice problems as well as videos and articles that cover a range of preK–12 subjects. Khan Academy’s learning system is mastery based, which allows students to master key concepts at a pace that’s right for them while staying at grade level. Khan Academy is piloting an AI guide called Khanmigo that is a tutor and teaching assistant.
Khan Academy partners with more than 500 school districts and schools across the country. Schools use Khan Academy Districts, MAP Accelerator and Khan Academy Kids (for preschool through second grade) to help teachers tailor instruction for each student.
Khan Academy has more than 150 million registered users around the world and has been translated into more than 50 languages. It is used in more than 190 countries.
Sal has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In his book, The One World Schoolhouse, Sal outlines his vision for the future of education.
Sal lives in Mountain View, California, with his wife and three children.