 (she/her) is a public affairs and communications expert specializing in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and privacy. She previously worked on cybersecurity policy for D.C. government relations firms and peace and security policy for the United Nations. Lama is also an active member of the technology policy and socially responsible technology space, as she has contributed to university research on the intersections of policy, law, and technology, published podcasts on creating an inclusive Internet, and won second place in the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s first Policy Hackathon advocating for equitable solutions to bring broadband access to the incarcerated community. Lama is a volunteer at All Tech Is Human, where she has co-authored reports on AI and human rights, building a better tech future, and technology and democracy. She is also a current Fellow and the New York Regional Chair of the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, where she manages the organization's social media accounts, designs the graphics, and is a frequent host and moderator on The Foundry’s podcast episodes and webinars. As an emerging voice in the technology policy community, Lama has spoken at a variety of conferences and panels, including the 2023 IAPP Global Privacy Summit, where she highlighted the privacy issues unique to the youth generation. Lama has also facilitated a security training on AI and currently coaches students about starting a career in public interest technology and technology policy.

Lama Mohammed

 (she/her) is a J.D. Candidate at USC Gould School of Law, concentrating her studies and practice on cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, and trust and safety. With her background in communication, international studies, and technology management, she endeavors to build bridges between various communities to solve interdisciplinary problems in technology. Throughout law school, she has interned at SentinelOne, the Future of Privacy Forum, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Goodwin Procter, and VMCA Advogados (in São Paulo, Brazil). Formerly interning (and later consulting) at the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union, she has recently returned to the internet governance space as an ICANN Fellow for ICANN76 in Cancún, Mexico, and a member of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group. She has spoken on her unique view of interdisciplinary digital rights issues at several international conferences, including Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit, the California Lawyers Association’s annual Privacy Summit, and the American Bar Association’s inaugural Consumer Protection and Data Privacy Conference. She currently serves as the Vice-President and West Coast Regional Chair of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, where she is additionally a Senior Fellow and the host/executive producer of the Tech Policy Grind podcast.

Reema Moussa

Charles Coon is the Senior Communications Manager at DAI and supports the Critical Infrastructure Digitalization and Resilience (CIDR) program, a USAID program to promote cybersecurity in the Western Balkans, Black Sea region, and South Caucasus. The CIDR team works with governments, critical infrastructure operators, and their partners to provide assistance to partner nations in cybersecurity governance, cybersecurity assessment, cyber workforce development, and information sharing. Previously, Charles worked for nearly 30 years as a newspaper reporter, in corporate communications, and as an instructor of public affairs and communications strategy at the Defense Information School (DINFOS).

Charles Coon

Alexander Riabov is a Senior Communications Advisor on DAI’s Digital Frontiers, covering cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), ICT policy, and emerging tech topics. He also serves as DAI’s lead technical writer for Digital Frontiers activities under the Digital Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership (DCCP). In addition, Alexander supported numerous technology initiatives including USAID’s Equitable AI Challenge and Community of Practice (CoP), USAID’s Digital Financial Services (DFS) programming guide, and USAID’s digital development country knowledge portal. Prior to joining DAI, Alexander worked as the Communications Manager for the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing solutions to critical cyber and security challenges, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), and the International Finance Corporation – World Bank Group. Alex holds a B.A. in International Studies from American University which includes direct enrollment at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Alexander Riabov

Laboni Bayen is a researcher for the Tech Transparency Project, a research initiative of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability that explores the influence of big technology companies on legislation, education, and society. She has a BS in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a background in computer science and data science.

Laboni Bayen

Corinne Worthington is the Research Manager at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.). Corinne recently graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in Human Rights Studies with a focus on the policy, practices, and deployment of surveillance technology as mechanisms for discriminatory social control. Her master’s thesis investigated how the NYPD’s surveillance system targets Black communities under the guise of terrorism prevention. Previously, Corinne held positions in the Curatorial Department and Director’s Office of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She received her B.A. in Global Liberal Studies and Art History from New York University in 2019.

Corinne Worthington

Aaron Greenberg is a Research Intern at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and a graduate student in the bioethics program at Harvard Medical School. He has a background in software engineering, having worked as an engineer and manager at the Securities & Exchange Commission and DigitalOcean. Exposure to the tech industry spurred his strong interest in the ethics of technology. In his program, he studies the societal impact of technology and how it can be used to support—or erode—civil and human rights. Outside of work, he tries to stay engaged in his community, and has volunteered with NYC organizations like Code Nation and NYC Mesh.

Aaron Greenberg

Kelly Adkins is a business and finance reporter for the Medill News Service on Capitol Hill. She covers topics like technology and money, and how it intersects with government policy at the national level. She is pursuing a masters of science in journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Kelly Adkins

Haaris Mateen is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business. His research focuses on the economics of climate change and on media economics. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University.

Haaris Mateen

Hinako Sugiyama is an international human rights lawyer and a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where she supervises the work of the International Justice Clinic. Hinako analyzes how states and companies’ conduct impacts people’s lives and ideas, particularly those placed under power, and supports them in resisting surveillance and expressing themselves more. Her tools include multidisciplinary research, litigation, and policy advocacy, as well as coalition building. Currently, she is working on issues such as targeted surveillance of journalists and human rights defenders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining UC Irvine, Hinako served as a Columbia Global Public Service Fellow at Access Now and a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Previously, she worked at an international law firm in Tokyo, leading cross-border investigations and remediation of multinational companies’ misconduct, such as corruption and fraud in Vietnam, and improving corporate compliance programs. Hinako earned her B.A. from Keio University in Tokyo, J.D. at Hitotsubashi Law School in Tokyo, and LL.M. at Columbia Law School in New York. She is a qualified lawyer in Japan and the US.

Hinako Sugiyama

Cedric is the Government Affairs Policy Advocate at Public Knowledge focusing on government affairs strategy, through advocacy, strategy development, and relationship building across the public interest field. Prior to joining Public Knowledge, Cedric was a legislative assistant and press secretary on Capitol Hill. Afterwards, he was a research analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy. In each position, he conducted policy analysis on federal legislation and maintained a broad range of external oversight while analyzing interagency, nongovernmental, and academia policy. Cedric received his M.A. in Public Policy from Howard University, M.A. in Liberal Studies from Delta State University, and B.A. in Political Science from Delta State University, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. Cedric is a native Mississippian who enjoys poetry, sports cars, and lofi music.

Cedric Watkins

Roberta Braga is the Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas. Previously, she was Director of Counter-Disinformation Strategies at Equis Institute, Deputy Director for Programs and Outreach at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, and Manager for Global Content and Campaigns at the law firm Baker McKenzie. Roberta was named as one of 50 “Top Women in Cybersecurity Americas” by Latinas in Cyber and WOMCY in 2023. She was a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy from 2021 to 2022, and a Cyber Fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy in the same year. Roberta has been published in major media outlets and provides English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-language commentary on political and social issues in the U.S. and Latin America, including for 

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, Axios, Brazil’s O Globo and Folha de S.Paulo,

 among others. Originally from Brazil, Roberta is a native Portuguese- and English-speaker, and fluent in Spanish.

Roberta Braga

Patricia Gruver-Barr is the co-founder of the Tech Diplomacy Network, a Senior Fellow at New America’s Planetary Politics Initiative, a former Science Attaché for the British and Québec governments, and a tech policy consultant.

Patricia Gruver-Barr

Olalekan J. Akintande is a lecturer and researcher in the Computational Statistics Unit at the University of Ibadan. His research interests fall under algorithmic fairness, responsible AI, machine intelligence systems, statistical learning and ethics with application to sustainable development goals (SDGs) and other socially impactful research. O.J. has won many international awards, including two of his research works that were awarded most impactful research addressing SDGs by Elsevier. He was also awarded a Microsoft Ph.D. Research Fellowship in 2021 and has published in many International research outlets.

Olalekan J. Akintande

Joseph B. Keller is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. His interests encompass inclusive global AI governance, climate change in geopolitics, and security concerns for emerging technologies. A neuroscientist turned policy researcher, Joseph is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University and has experience across academia, government, and civil society.

Joseph B. Keller

Jon Steinman is a former Bloomberg News reporter and cybersecurity startup co-founder who is now a communicator at Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to repairing and strengthening American democracy.

Jon Steinman

Christine Bannan is policy counsel at New America’s Open Technology Institute, focusing on platform accountability and privacy. Prior to joining OTI, she worked as consumer protection counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where she advocated for stronger privacy regulations before federal agencies and Congress. During law school, she interned at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Copyright Office, and the Wikimedia Foundation. She is an Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellow and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). Bannan earned her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School and B.A. in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross.

Christine Bannan

Caroline Sinders is a critical designer and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), the Mozilla Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Over the past four years, she’s been exploring dark patterns and how design affects policy and technology. Over the past six years, she’s been researching security and privacy within design, technology and through the lens of consumer safety and harm mitigation. Caroline is based in London and New Orleans.

Caroline Sinders

Cooper Raterink recently graduated from the MSCS program at Stanford University, where he studied human-centered artificial intelligence and analyzed misinformation with 

. He currently researches large language model safety and responsibility at 

Cooper Raterink

Adi Cohen is Memetica’s COO, building tools and methods to detect and tackle threats and harms online. Previously, he was an Intelligence Director at Storyful, and an OSINT journalist, researching forms of online extremism, disinformation and misinformation. He is the Co-Founder of Israel Public Policy Institute (IPPI), where he headed the Disinformation Program.

Adi Cohen

Douglas Carswell is the President & CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Previously a Member of Parliament in Britain for twelve years, Douglas was re-elected very time he stood. He also co-founded Vote Leave, the official campaign that won the Brexit referendum in Britain.

Douglas Carswell

Betsy Cooper is Founding Director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Previously, she was the founding Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and was a policy and legal counselor at the Department of Homeland Security. Betsy has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford and graduated from Yale Law School. In her spare time she likes to run experiments to see if her digital devices are listening to her.

Betsy Cooper

Alex C. Engler is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an Associate Fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies, where he examines the societal and policy implications of artificial intelligence. Previously faculty at the University of Chicago, Engler now teaches AI policy at Georgetown University, where he is an adjunct professor and affiliated scholar. Engler also has a decade of experience as a data scientist in policy organizations.

Alex Engler

Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

, and an Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University teaching technology product management and project management. She is a toxicologist and a technologist, passionate about teaching, and curious about the intersection of the future of work, learning, education, and AI/ML technology. She is a technology product manager with deep experience in building AI/ML products for Walmart Labs, and Cisco Systems. She developed the first quantitative risk-based simulation model for health risk assessment that was implemented by the U.S. Navy.

Anita Balaraman

, PhD, JD, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice. She co-founded the 

, which trains students and professionals to use social media and other digital content to strengthen human rights advocacy and accountability.

Alexa Koenig

Carmen Scurato is an attorney on the Free Press policy team working at the intersections of racial justice, technology and internet policy. Before joining Free Press, Carmen led the policy team at the National Hispanic Media Coalition, where she advocated for policies that advance the communication needs of the Latinx community.

Carmen Scurato

Benj Azose is an advocate for free prison communication and was part of the successful effort to make phone calls from California prisons free in 2022 (SB 1008). He attended the Aspen Institute Tech Executive Leadership Institute and served on the San Mateo County District Lines Advisory Commission to help re-draw San Mateo’s county lines after the 2020 census. Benj leads a team of analysts working on Google Chrome and has been at Google since 2008. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Harvey Mudd College.

Benj Azose

Alexander C. Hart is a Vice President with 

, where he manages projects in policy and strategic planning, research, communications, public opinion, evaluation, and event facilitation. He leads the firm’s work with public interest foundations and nonprofits on technology policy issues.

Alexander Hart

 is a Syrian-American Responsible Innovation Consultant where she works on identifying and mitigating potential harms to society caused by emerging technologies. She is passionate about using data, policy and technology to bridge the gap between advocacy and policy change. She completed her Master of Science in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University where she joined the Public Interest Technology Lab to work on Combating Bias in Government Data and Algorithms. Alisar is the founder of Analytics for Advocacy, an organization that equips advocacy groups with the policy, data and tech resources to effectively pass or change legislation.

Alisar Mustafa

Brian is a co-founder of The Delta Fund, a portfolio of impact investments and grants focused on supporting organizations working to improve equity. Brian and his wife Katie co-lead the fund’s focus on poverty alleviation, racial justice and economic justice by helping to scale organizations that improve outcomes for the poor and disadvantaged. He currently serves on the boards for Faith and Prejudice, Upaya Social Ventures and LifeHikes. Brian is a former Vice President at Facebook where he built high impact teams in strategy, operations, marketing and engineering. Prior to working with Facebook, Brian spent time as an entrepreneur, working at an agency and in product roles at Microsoft. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy with honors. Brian and Katie live in Bellevue, WA with their two children.

Brian Boland

Benjamin T. Decker is the Founder and CEO of Memetica, a digital investigations firm, and a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project. In addition to contributing to 

, Ben has produced research papers about online extremism and participated in the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. In 2019, Ben completed a research fellowship at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School writing about the network effect of far-right and extremist ideologies and their impact on global elections. At Storyful, he worked with industry-leading organizations to produce investigations and research projects, including 

Benjamin T. Decker

Angrej Singh is specializing in engagement journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is an intern at 

 and an audience producer at Hearst Connecticut Media. He previously worked at the 

 as a metro desk reporter to help cover breaking news, local politics, crime and human interest stories. Singh has assisted 

 with its Open Newsroom as a conversation facilitator and wrote obituaries for the Missing Them project. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College, where he pursued media studies with a concentration in journalism.

Angrej Singh

. She supports project teams through strategic planning, research, and project management, and her work focuses on technology and civil rights, with a particular emphasis on emerging technology.

Alex Kennedy

 at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa. More recently she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her Ph.D. on the topic from the University of Navarra. She is the editor of 

Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World

African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa 

Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News

Anya Schiffrin

UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity 

since 2018, helping fulfill its mission of anticipating and addressing tomorrow’s cybersecurity challenges in order to amplify the upside of the digital revolution. Her expertise in non-profit management, philanthropy, and industry informs CLTC’s success as a research and collaboration hub that helps decision-makers act with foresight, and expand who has access to and participates in cybersecurity. Ann was previously the Senior Director of Strategic Planning at the ClimateWorks Foundation and architect of its learning and evaluation systems, focused on advancing a more strategic, effective, and science-based response to global climate change. She is fluent in Spanish and received her BA from Rice University and her MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio Graduate School.

Ann Cleaveland

Aden is an undergraduate University Scholar at Duke, where his research focuses on data brokers, national security, and privacy.

Aden Klein

Cooper Quintin is a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab, and board member of Open Archive. He has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and analysis of state sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. Cooper has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Enigma Conference, and ReCon about issues ranging from IMSI Catcher detection to fem tech privacy issues to newly discovered APTs. He has also been published or quoted in publications including: The New York Times, Reuters, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Cooper has given security trainings for activists, non profit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world. He previously worked building websites for nonprofits, including Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. In his spare time he enjoys making music, visualizing a solar-punk communitarian future, and playing with his kids.

Cooper Quintin

Anuradha (Anu) Herur has a MALD from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in tech policy and human security. She currently works a dual role at Digital Planet and the Hitachi Center for Technology and International affairs. Her research focuses on digital disinformation, free speech, and content moderation. She’s a 2022 fellow at the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. She has previously worked as a lawyer, and a journalist in India. Find her on 

Anuradha Herur

Anushka Jain is a lawyer and policy researcher interested in disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition and machine learning. She works as the Policy Counsel (Surveillance & Transparency) at Internet Freedom Foundation.

Anushka Jain

Alek is the Director of Strategy at Open Future. He has over 15 years of experience with public interest advocacy, movement building and research into the intersection of society, culture and digital technologies. He is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD in sociology from the Polish Academy of Science. In 2010 he established 

, one of the leading Polish organizations promoting openness and internet users’ rights. He led Centrum Cyfrowe for ten years as the Director and President of the Board. Before founding Centrum Cyfrowe, he was a strategic advisor to the Prime Minister of Poland. In 2005, he co-founded 

 and had since then been an active member of the 

. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of 

. He is also one of the co-founders of 

, the European Association for the Public Domain. Together with other COMMUNIA members, he’s been involved since 2015 in European copyright reform advocacy, related to the European 

Alek Tarkowski

Claire Perhsan is the Mozilla Foundation’s EU Advocacy Lead, based in Brussels, Belgium. She has held previous roles at the NGO EU DisinfoLab and at Renaissance Numerique, a Paris-based think tank. She has contributed to the European Commission Joint Research Center's work on Hybrid Threats in the Information Domain and as a content expert for Internews on tech and civic space.

Claire Pershan

Carly Cramer is an Associate at Freedman Consulting, LLC, where she assists project teams with communications, policy research, and coalition support. Her work covers public health, artificial intelligence policy, and public-private partnerships.

Carly Cramer

Alex Newhouse served as an Investigative Analyst for the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. He is the Deputy Director at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism and the Director of Technical Research at the Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC), and he specializes in the study of online far-right extremism.

Alex Newhouse

 Student Staff Editor and a JD candidate at New York University School of Law. Aaron studied history and religion at Columbia and then worked on political campaigns in Texas and Iowa for two years before starting law school in 2020. At NYU, Aaron is Senior Notes Editor for the 

N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy 

and served as Research Assistant to Professor Zalman Rothschild. During law school, Aaron has interned at the U.S. Department of Defense, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office (EDNY), and the New York State Inspector General's Office. Aaron is pursuing a career in government and is particularly excited about the intersections of criminal law, national security, First Amendment issues, politics, and tech policy.

Aaron Fisher

Alaina Smith is a Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. student in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department at the University of Florida, under Dr. Juan Gilbert's advisement in the Computing for Social Good Lab.

Alaina Smith

Amanda Beckham is the government relations manager at Free Press Action's Washington, D.C. office where she engages lawmakers to advance policies that achieve the organization's core goals of promoting equitable access to technology, saving Net Neutrality, and ensuring that media and technology are tools of democracy and not oppression.

Amanda Beckham

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Founding Director of the 

, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (

 and GSPP to strengthen tech policy education, research, and impact. Brandie is the Director of 

, a program that supports empirical research, policy analysis, training, and engagement to address the sharp rise of online harms. She is a co-director of the 

 at Berkeley Law. She also co-directs the UC Berkeley 

, an interdisciplinary initiative training researchers to develop effective AI governance and policy frameworks.Her research has been featured in 

, among others. Her research articles, op-eds, and presentations are available at 

Brandie Nonnecke

Betsy Masiello is a tech policy strategist with experience in a wide range of industries, including tech, media and telecoms, public health and urban transportation, and is the co-founder of consulting firm Proteus Strategies. Previously, she was VP of Public Policy at Juul Labs, Senior Director of Public Policy at Uber, and before that led Google's public policy efforts on privacy and economic impact.

Betsy Masiello

David Danks both develops novel AI methods and examines the ethical and societal impacts of AI technologies. He is a Professor of Data Science & Philosophy at UC San Diego, and serves on multiple advisory boards, including the National AI Advisory Committee.

David Danks

Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute. She focuses on the labor needed to build the data underlying artificial intelligence systems, and how these data exacerbate existing racial, gender, and class inequality.

Alex Hanna

Ben is the US Campaigner at Access Now where he supports strategic outreach to policymakers, civil society, the media, and the private sector in the US. He previously worked at The Signals Network, a whistleblower support organization, where he led the Tech Accountability Project. Before that, he spent four years working as a grants manager for humanitarian organizations in Kenya, Nigeria, Iraq, and Syria. He also worked on the US Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Committee on Rules and Administration.