Name: Tom Romanoff
Current city: Washington DC
Current job: Director of the Technology Policy Project, Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)
Past job: Program Manager, Northramp
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Name: Dewey Murdick
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University
Past job: Director of Science Analytics, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Name: Victoria Espinel
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance and President, Software.org: the BSA Foundation; Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
Past job: President Obama’s advisor on intellectual property; The first chief US trade negotiator for intellectual property and innovation at USTR
Name: Nii Simmonds
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Nonresident Senior Fellow at the GeoTech Center at the Atlantic Council
Past job: Senior Advisor at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University
Name: Soribel Feliz
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior AI and Tech Policy Advisor to Senator Bill Cassidy
Past job: Microsoft, Program Manager
Name: Damola Ogundipe
Current city: Brookhaven, GA
Current job: CEO of Plural
Past job: Oxford Strategic Consulting
Name: Audra Grassia
Current city: Midlothian, VA
Current job: Chief Innovation Officer, Goodstock & Co. + Independent Consultant, Luminarity LLC
Past job: CEO, Grassia Collaborative LLC
Name: Naeim Khanjani
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO at Electo Analytics
Past job: Consultant
Name: Asya Kislyuk
Current city: Carmel, IN
Current job: Looking for it!
Past job: Policy Programs Manager at Instagram; Policy Manager and Deputy Director, Community Engagement at Airbnb; Senior Program Assistant, Ukraine and Moldova at the National Democratic Institute; State Department Intern
Name: Catherine Aiken
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Data Science and Research, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
Past job: Survey Specialist, Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Lecturer, University of Maryland
Name: Jennifer Shieh
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Ecosystem Development, Office of Investment & Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Past job: Chief Scientist for America's Seed Fund, Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), food scooper at Dragon Bowl
Name: Afua Bruce
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Founder & Principal, ANB Advisory Group LLC & Author of The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World
Past job: Chief Program Officer, Datakind; Director of Engineering, Public Interest Technology at New America; Executive Director, National Science and Technology Council, White House; Science and Technology strategy and program management, FBI
Name: Rob Duhart
Current city: Washington DC
Current job: VP, Deputy CISO at Walmart
Past job: Global Head, Federated Security/PSS at Google
Name: Stephen Boyce
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director at Magnet Forensics; Adjunct Professor at Marymount University
Past job: Senior Advisor at IFES; Principal Consultant/vCISO at Palo Alto Networks (The Crypsis Group); Digital Media Exploitation & Digital Forensics at the FBI; Pathways Information Technology Specialist at the U.S. Department of State
Name: Sallie Newton
Current city: Raleigh, NC
Current job: Senior Application Security Engineer at Intel
Past job: Application Security Engineer at SAS
Name: Jordan Crenshaw
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Vice President, US Chamber of Commerce Technology Engagement Center
Past job: Attorney
Name: Will Hurd
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Former U.S. Congressman, Texas & Author of American Reboot: An Idealist's Way of Getting Things Done
Past job: Undercover CIA officer; cybersecurity entrepreneur
Name: Ayan Islam
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Associate Policy Director, Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats at R Street Institute
Past job: Critical Infrastructure Portfolio Lead, Vulnerability Management Mitigations Section at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Name: Lisa Roman
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Vice President, Global Public Policy and Social Impact at Bumble
Past job: National Security Council, the State Department, the United Nations
Name: Soraya Bagheri
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Co-founder and COO, Electo Analytics
Past job: Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP