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CONTRIBUTORS

We have collaborated with authors from diverse corners of the S&T community to source and accelerate new ideas, readying them for action on Day One of the next presidential term.
Hover over each author to see their policy proposals.

Lori Garver
CEO of Earthrise Alliance and Former Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dan Hammer
Managing Partner at Earthrise Media and Former Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Matt Perault
Director of the Center on Science & Technology at Duke University and Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy

Ezinne Uzo-Okoro
Chief, Small Spacecraft Mission Design Division at NASA and Harvard Kennedy School Dublin Fellow

Christopher Coes
VP for Land Use at Smart Growth America

Alex Leader
Senior Associate at Luminary Labs

Ashley Holub
Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Devices Epidemiology at Johnson & Johnson

Ann Mei Chang
Former Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development

Dean M. Evasius
Former Director for the Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation

Adam Cohen
CEO and President, AUI and Former Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy

Cheryl Martin
CEO of Harwich Partners and Former Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy

Ilan Gur
CEO of Activate and Former Program Director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy

Kevin Wei
Graduate AI Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology

Alex Dehgan
CEO of Conservation Labs and Former Chief Scientist at the U.S. Agency for International Development

Fernando Gómez-Baquero
Director of Runway and Spinouts at Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute

David Zipper
Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government

Grace Collins
CEO of Liminal Sports and Former Educational Technology Liason at the Department of Education

Sabrina Merlo
Head of Local Response at Open Source Medical Supplies

Amina Fazlullah
Equity Policy Counsel for Common Sense

Michael Stebbins
Former Assistant Director for Biotechnology in the Office of Science and Technology Policy

David Crotty
Editorial Director of Journals Policy for Oxford University Press

Monique Chism
Vice President for Policy, Practice, and Systems Change at the American Institutes for Research

Ida Sim
Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

Stephen Posner
Director of Policy of the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont

Andrea Ippolito
Lecturer at Cornell University and former Presidential Innovation Fellow

Steph Guerra
AAAS Science and Technology Fellow at the Veteran's Health Administration

Jen Goldsack
Co-founder and Executive Director of the Digital Medicine Society

Greg Rosston
Director of the Public Policy Program at Stanford University

Ellen Goodman
Founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law and Professor at Rutgers Law School

Blair Levin
Former Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt

Scott Wallsten
President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute
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Helen Toner
Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Roxanne Heston
Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
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Gigi Sohn
Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and Former Counselor to the FCC Chairman

Eric Breckenfeld
Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton and former AAAS Science and Technology Fellow

Geoff Ling
Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

Orin Hoffman
Venture Partner at The Engine and former CTO of the Defense Innovation Unit at the Department of Defense

Katie Rae
CEO & Managing Partner of The Engine

Michael Kearney
Senior Associate at The Engine

Mrunali Manjrekar
Engineering Student at University of California, Berkeley

Ilana Harrus
Senior Program Associate AAAS AI Applications-Implications Initiative and Former Program Scientist at NASA

Kathy Stack
Former Deputy Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor at the Office of Management and Budget

Sridhar Kota
Professor at University of Michigan and Former Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing at the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Nick Maynard
COO of US Ignite and Former Assistant Director at the White House of Office and Science Policy

Heath Naquin
Senior Global and Government Liason Officer at VentureWell

Sam Rodriques
Founder of the Applied Biotechnology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute

Adam Marblestone
Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow and Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Ruth Milkman
Founding Partner at Quadra Partners and Former Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau

Jon Peha
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Former CTO of the Federal Communications Commission

Dipayan Ghosh
Co-Director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School and Former White House Tech and Economic Policy Advisor

John Leibovitz
Venture Partner at Columbia Capital and Former Deputy Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
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David Hart
Professor at George Mason University and Former Assistant Director for Innovation Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Mark Santos
Senior Consultant at Isle Utilities and Former ASME Congressional Engineering and Science Fellow in the Office of Senator Chris Coons

Patrick Gonzalez
Associate Professor at University of California, Berkeley and Principal Climate Change Scientist of the U.S. National Park Service

Bill Bonvillian
Senior Director at MIT’s Office of Digital Learning and Former Innovation Policy Advisor at the U.S. Senate

Ben Levine
Executive Director of MetroLab Network and Former Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury

Marcus Courtney
Public Affairs Consultant and Member of the Washington Future of Work Task Force

Mary Wooley
CEO of Research!America and Member of the National Academy of Medicine

Mario Cardona
Former Senior Policy Advisor on the White House Domestic Policy Council
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Jennifer Erickson
Former Associate Director of Innovation for Growth at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Crystal A. Gadegbeku
Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Greg Segal
Co-founder and CEO of Organize and Former Innovator in Residence at the Department of Health and Human Services
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