David Aaron is a partner at Perkins Coie and a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Security Division and a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney. His experience includes investigating and litigating cases involving Espionage Act violations, malicious cyber activity such as data breaches and destructive attacks, economic espionage, insider threats, undisclosed foreign government influence, and export control violations. David is frequently interviewed by leading media outlets, including ABC News, Bloomberg News, CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Reuters among others, for his insights into prominent national security cases and investigations.

In addition to the Espionage Act and Economic Espionage Act, David possesses deep knowledge of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA), and related data security and privacy authorities including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). David has substantial experience working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the U.S. Intelligence Community.

While serving as a national security attorney, David advised senior leadership on security threats and developed and implemented data privacy compliance programs.

Among other distinctions, David was the recipient of multiple Assistant Attorney General’s Awards and two Attorney General’s Awards for Distinguished Service. He holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) certification, was a fellow in Advanced Cyber Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and in the Center for Biosecurity’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative, and earned a master’s degree in cybersecurity from Brown University, where he received the Master’s Award for Professional Excellence.

Krystal Azelton (née Wilson) is a Director of Space Applications Programs at Secure World Foundation and has over 10 years of international and domestic space, public policy, and management experience.

Prior to joining SWF, Ms. Azelton was a consultant at Access Partnership, where she worked with international satellite service providers and other leading technology companies on policy issues related to spectrum management, emergency communications, telecommunications standards, orbital debris, and multilateral processes including representing industry at the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission. She has also served as a project manager at the Tauri Group, a leading aerospace analytics firm, providing research, analysis, strategic planning, and regulatory assessment to government and commercial clients. She led and supported production of NASA’s strategic plans, audits, performance plans, budgets, and annual reports. Her work exposed to the full range of NASA’s Earth observation, human exploration, and aviation programs. In that role, she was also recognized as a key member of a data management team that received the NASA Group Achievement Award.

Previously, Ms. Azelton was in the field of international development as a Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at Development Alternatives, Inc in Afghanistan working on US military and local government initiatives and as Senior Program Assistant at the National Democratic Institute in Africa and Washington, DC working on sustainable governance projects. In those roles, she worked closely with the United Nations, the World Bank, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, US and international nonprofits, and others.

Ms. Azelton holds a BSFS in International Politics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC and completed the Programme Internationale at Sciences-Po in Paris, France.

Kristina Belcourt is part of the SASC professional staff, and is staff lead for the Airland Subcommittee for the Minority. She also works with the Strategic Forces subcommittee on space issues.

Prior to joining the SASC, Kristina worked in the private sector, consulting for a variety of aerospace and defense industry clients. Before her time in industry, Kristina served 15 years in the active duty Air Force. A career Intelligence Weapons Officer, she served in a variety of operational and leadership positions in missions across the Air Force and joint force. Those include space operations, special operations, fighters, bombers, mobility, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, as well as legislative liaison in the Pentagon. Kristina also ran intelligence unit support for all flying units in the Pacific theater during a major shift in DoD focus to that region.

Her operational assignments included bases in Texas, Colorado, Idaho, Hawaii, New Mexico, and
Washington, DC, as well as four combat deployments to locations in CENTCOM. Kristina holds a Bachelor of Science in American History from the United States Air Force Academy, an MA in Military History from Norwich University, and an MS in Science and Technology Intelligence from the National Intelligence University. Kristina is also in the Virginia Air National Guard, and has served in that capacity since 2019.

Dyllan Brown-Bramble is a privacy and cybersecurity associate at Latham & Watkins LLP and a Senior Fellow at the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. At his firm, Dyllan maintains an active pro bono practice with a focus on advising low-income entrepreneurs and small businesses. He also serves on the VOLS Pro Bono Advocates Council and the junior board for the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. While in law school, he was a Tech Law & Policy Scholar, represented clients in the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic, was a research assistant at the Center on Privacy & Technology, and was a teaching assistant for Computer Programming for Lawyers and Legal Communication Design. He also worked as a legal intern at Morgan Stanley and SambaTV and as a fellow at Mount Sinai Innovation Partners and InSITE.

Halimah DeLaine Prado is General Counsel at Google, leading the company’s world-class legal team, advising on some of the most complex and important legal issues of the digital age. Prior to that, Halimah was a Vice President of Legal. In this role, she managed the Products and Agreements Legal team, a global legal team responsible for the product and commercial counsel advising of Google’s products, including Ads, Search, Cloud, Hardware, Platforms & Ecosystems, and YouTube. She has been with Google since 2006.

Prior to joining Google, Halimah practiced media law and products liability law at Dechert LLP and Levine Sullivan Koch and Schulz, which has since merged with Balllard Spahr. She also clerked for the Honorable Mary A. McLaughlin of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Halimah obtained her J.D. from Georgetown, and her undergraduate degree from Yale.

Halimah is on the Board of the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity (LCLD). Through LCLD, Halimah has pledged to advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the Legal industry, in addition to supporting Google’s existing commitments towards racial equity. Halimah is also a member of the American Law Institute.

Laura E. DeNardis is a Professor of Technology, Ethics and Society at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. With a background in information engineering and a doctorate in Science and Technology Studies, she has published seven books and numerous articles on the political and social implications of Internet technical architecture and governance. Dr. DeNardis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an affiliated Fellow (and previously Executive Director) at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Delara Derakhshani is Director of Policy for the Data Transfer Initiative (DTI), a non-profit with the mission to empower individuals by enabling effective data transfers. Her prior roles include advising on privacy, e-commerce, and accessibility issues in Meta’s Reality Labs division, the Entertainment Software Association, and Consumer Reports. Delara has testified before Congress on privacy and technology and has appeared on several national media outlets — including NBC Nightly News, NPR, Fox Business, and HuffPost Live. She received her JD from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law and her BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia.

Monica Desai is the founder of Tech Policy Advisors, LLC, which provides strategic expertise and hands on support globally for consultations, report writing, and stakeholder coordination in the areas of broadband deployment, telecoms policy, and emerging tech issues. Monica has over 20 years of experience navigating the telecoms policy space, as 1) former Meta Vice President managing a global team focused on broadband deployment, telecoms, spectrum and accessibility; 2) a former member of the FCC’s senior executive service, serving as Chief of the Media Bureau, Chief of the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, Deputy Chief of the Wireless Bureau, and advisor to an FCC Commissioner; and 3) Partner in a global law firm representing clients before the FCC and Congress. Monica received her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, and her BBA in Finance, magna cum laude, from the George Washington University. She studied Economics at the American College of Switzerland.

Jason Gerson is Lead Counsel, Privacy and Data, at Wells Fargo, where his portfolio includes AI, children’s privacy, Latin American and Canadian privacy, European privacy, and global privacy regulatory and legislative strategy. Jason also teaches as an adjunct at GW Law. Before Wells Fargo, Jason was a Privacy Counsel at TerraTrue, a privacy-by-design startup, as well as The Atlantic’s first-ever Privacy and Digital Product Counsel. Prior to being in-house, Jason practiced at Latham & Watkins in their privacy and data security practice. Jason graduated with a B.A. from Georgetown University and with a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Ellen Gertsen is the deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS). She provides leadership related to the management and operations of OTPS. Gertsen also supports the Associate Administrator in providing data- and evidence-driven technology, policy, and strategy advice to NASA leadership and engaging with the technology and space policy communities. She joined NASA in 2003 as a Presidential Management Fellow and has extensive experience leading policy development, performance management, strategic planning, and organizational change initiatives.

Yosef Getachew is a Senior Policy Counsel at Reset.Tech where he supports programmatic work in the United States to help shape policies and regulations that safeguard digital rights and mitigate platform business practices that cause public harm. Yosef works with Reset’s partners to develop legal, policy, and corporate accountability strategies to combat digital threats to democracy. His work focuses on data privacy, transparency, artificial intelligence, content moderation, and other issues. Prior to joining Reset, Yosef served as the Media and Democracy Program Director for Common Cause where he led strategic campaigns to educate and engage the public and policymakers on critical reforms needed to advance an open and accessible media ecosystem that supports democracy.

John Heflin is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group. Before joining the firm, John was an associate at a national firm where he focused on privacy and data security, emerging technologies, and intellectual property with a focus on trademark law.

John earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law School. While there, he served on the Georgetown Law Technology Review, as the evening vice president of the Student Bar Association, and a member of the Black Law Student Association and OutLaw. He earned his B.A. from Marquette University in political science with minor degrees in ethics and theology.

Kristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law, where she supervises law students and represents youth accused of delinquency in the D.C. Superior Court. Professor Henning served as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Clinics and Experiential Learning from 2017-2020. Professor Henning first joined the faculty in 1995 as a Stuart-Stiller Fellow in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinics. After her fellowship, Professor Henning joined the staff of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where she continued to represent clients and helped organize a Juvenile Unit designed to meet the multi-disciplinary needs of children in the juvenile legal system. Professor Henning served as Lead Attorney for the Juvenile Unit from 1998 until she left the Public Defender Service to return to the Law Center in 2001.

Professor Henning writes extensively about race, adolescence, and policing. Her book THE RAGE OF INNOCENCE: HOW AMERICA CRIMINALIZES BLACK YOUTH was published by Penguin Random House in September 2021 and was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review and received rave reviews in the Washington Post. The book was awarded a 2022 Media for a Just Society Award by Evident Change and the 2022 Social Justice Advocacy Award from the In the Margins Book Awards Committee.

Julie Kearney is the first Chief of the Space Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Launched in April 2023, the Space Bureau plays a key role in advancing the Commission’s Space Innovation Agenda to meet the needs of the next generation Space Age.

Prior to joining the FCC, Kearney was Vice President of Communications Regulatory Affairs and Policy at Twilio Inc. At Twilio, she led global regulatory and policy efforts pertaining to telecommunications and law enforcement response.

Previously, she was Global Head of Communications Regulation and Policy for Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet, where she led the company’s U.S. and international regulatory initiatives. Other roles include: VP of Regulatory Affairs for the Consumer Technology Association; government affairs at NPR; international affairs at MCI (now Verizon); and associate at Haley Bader & Potts (now Foster Garvey).

Kearney is a past president of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and she also served as chair of the FCBA Foundation. She was a long-serving member of the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee and recently served on its Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. Other Board positions include USTelecom and the United States Technical Training Institute (USTTI).

Kearney earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law with a certificate from its Law and Technology Institute. She recently completed a 3.5 year term on the Columbus School of Law’s Board of Visitors. A trained singer, she has sung with choruses in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC area, most recently with Schola Cantorum (CA) and the Choral Arts Society of Washington (DC).

Janis Kestenbaum is a litigation partner in the Privacy & Security and Advertising practices in the Washington, DC office of Perkins Coie, LLP, where she represents businesses in investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and State Attorneys General, and counsels them on compliance with federal and state privacy and consumer protection laws, such as the California Consumer Protection Privacy Act and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Prior to joining Perkins, Janis spent over eight years at the FTC, working as a senior legal advisor to an FTC Chair and investigating and bringing cases in the Division of Marketing Practices in the Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Patrick Kyhos is a cybersecurity & AI attorney. He is currently the Director, Cyber Operations & Incident Response for the National Cyber Director. Before this position, he led a team in FBI Cyber Division. In this role, he led the FBI’s interagency response for domestic and international cyber incidents, countering illicit financing enabled by digital assets, and notably had the pen for FBI’s input on the National Cybersecurity Strategy. Previously, he led the FBI’s Technology Policy program – where he created the authoritative document of legal principles for emerging technology – and served as an Attorney in the FBI’s Office of General Counsel.

He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2014, where he was Executive Technology Editor of the Journal of Business & Technology. Last year, he completed a technical degree in Artificial Intelligence from George Washington University. He is currently pursuing a LL.M. in Georgetown’s Technology Law program.

Amanda Levendowski is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, where her work uses intellectual property, privacy, and other laws creatively to create more just technologies. Her past scholarship centers on AI, perfume, and the Internet itself. She is also the Founder of the Cyberspace and Technology (CAT) Lab.

Lisa Macpherson is a former Chief Marketing Officer now working on public policy for the technology sector. Lisa's marketing specialty was digital marketing transformation: leading the efforts of companies like Timberland, Hallmark, Custom Ink and Pernod Ricard to transform their marketing by leveraging data and digital technology. But over time, she became deeply concerned about the impact of digital technology on personal well-being, society, and democracy. She was accepted as a Fellow in Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative in 2019. While at Harvard, she attended courses at Harvard Kennedy School and studied how public policy could be used to mitigate the impact of digital technology in our world. In early 2020, while still a Senior Fellow at Harvard, Lisa joined DC-based, non-profit advocacy firm Public Knowledge. She’s now a Senior Policy Analyst, with a particular focus on the role of healthy information systems in a democracy. Lisa is also a Senior Managing Editor of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Social Impact Review, an online journal focused on social impact. She received a BA from Colgate University, and an MBA from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Kathy Morgan is the Chief Legal Officer of Iridium.

Belinda E. Nixon is vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary at Internet2 and she is responsible for the strategic direction of all legal services and government relations. She is also a member of the executive leadership team.
  
Belinda is an accomplished lawyer and leader with a broad and deep background in technology, compliance, legal services, and regulatory issues. She has over 20 years of experience practicing communications law and policy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and in private practice.

Most recently, Belinda was a partner in the Technology Transactions and Privacy Group at Perkins Coie, serving as a trusted legal advisor to telecommunications and technology companies from start-ups to the Fortune 100. Before that, she was a deputy division chief in the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), providing strategic guidance on wireless telecommunications infrastructure policy (including 5G and broadband deployment) to FCC Commissioners and other agency leaders.
  
Belinda earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law, where she serves as a Member of the Board of Visitors.

Sean Perryman is an attorney and advocate with several years of experience working on issues at the intersection of policy, tech, politics, and social justice. He is currently the Head of Algorithmic Fairness Policy for Uber. In that role, he shapes the company’s policy and positions on artificial intelligence regulation and works internally on issues of tech ethics and fairness. Previously, Perryman worked as Director of Social Impact Policy at the Internet Association leading efforts on responsible use of artificial intelligence. He also represented the association on the Federal Communication Commission’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment. Perryman launched his career as an attorney working in law offices in Dallas and Washington DC advising clients in commercial litigation. He left to work for the late Congressman Elijah Cummings as Counsel to the House Oversight Committee. Perryman received his B.A. from City University of New York- Baruch College and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Vickie Robinson, General Manager of Microsoft’s Global Airband Initiative, fosters relationships with internal and external partners to close the global digital divide. She also works to drive digital transformation enabled through applications and services offered by Microsoft’s Cloud. Prior to this role, Ms. Robinson spent nearly two decades serving the Federal Communications Commission in multiple leadership positions and eventually served as Acting CEO and General Counsel of the Universal Service Administrative Co., an independent nonprofit designated by the FCC as the Universal Service Fund’s administrator. She maintains a commitment to universal broadband access in all of her work.

Natalie Roisman is the Executive Director of Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a partner and Director of Social Responsibility at the law firm of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP (WBK) in Washington, D.C. Natalie is a longtime leader in the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) – The Tech Bar. She served as president of the FCBA in 2020-21, leading the association through the COVID-19 pandemic

A champion for equity in law and tech, Natalie is in her second term as an elected Board member of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She founded the WBK Women’s Initiative and created the FCBA Women’s Summit. Under Natalie’s presidency, the FCBA launched the Diversity Pipeline Program, which in its first two years has placed more than 50 law students from historically underrepresented groups in new, paid tech/media/telecom law and policy internships. Natalie now serves as a co-chair of the FCBA’s Women’s Leadership Committee.

Natalie taught as an adjunct at the George Washington University Law School for nearly a decade, where she helped GW Law attract the Federal Communications Law Journal and coached the GW Law telecommunications and technology moot court team. Natalie previously worked in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau and as associate and counsel at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. She holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Stephanie is a Partner at Pekins Coie, LLP, where she leverages her more than 25 years of experience in the space industry as a physicist, analyst, and attorney. She is a lifelong space geek, including stints at space camp as a high schooler and International Space University as a young professional. As a legal advisor, Stephanie provides domestic and international counsel in support of her clients’ global space business plans. She have worked with major satellite manufacturers and services providers, launch providers, and emerging space services companies, providing regulatory guidance and negotiating strategic agreements with her clients’ customers, business partners, and key suppliers. Stephanie’s experience includes working with the FCC to license novel satellite and terrestrial spectrum applications and earn the agency’s approval for major changes of control.

Professor Neel U. Sukhatme is the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs, Anne Fleming Research Professor, and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2021–23, and the Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Professor Sukhatme has published or forthcoming articles in the Harvard Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, American Law and Economics Review, International Review of Law and Economics, William & Mary Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, Houston Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, The Regulatory Review, and Competition Policy International. His current research focuses on empirical patent law and law and economics. He teaches Property, Patent Law, Corporate Finance, Advanced Corporate Finance: Quantitative Analysis and Valuation, and Empirical Analysis for Lawyers and Policymakers, and he co-directs the Georgetown Law and Economics Workshop series.

In 2020, Professor Sukhatme co-founded Free Our Vote, a non-partisan, non-profit organization of data scientists, economists, and legal researchers that seeks to restore voting rights for people with past felony convictions. Free Our Vote paid off fines/fees for over 1,000 people with past felony convictions in Florida in time for the November 2020 election.

Professor Sukhatme received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, where he was awarded the 2014 Towbes Prize for Outstanding Teaching. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Professor Sukhatme clerked for the Hon. Vaughn R. Walker on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Hon. Ann Claire Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering (highest honors) with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Illinois. Professor Sukhatme also co-founded Spindrop, a music technology and Internet radio startup with a novel approach for automatically mixing songs.

Iyad Tarazi joined Federated Wireless from Sprint Corp., where he served as Vice President of Network Development and led the Network Vision network modernization project. Responsibilities included overseeing the development and integration of new products and technologies within Sprint’s networks and managing Sprint-Nextel’s technology integration labs.

Prior to the Sprint-Nextel merger, Iyad led Nextel’s Network Engineering organization, managing network planning, integration performance engineering, testing, and core deployment initiatives. Iyad also held positions with MCI and served as a Board member for CafeX Communications, which specializes in collaborative software development.

Iyad has a Masters in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Jennifer Tatel is a partner at Wilkinson Barker Knauer. Jennifer brings sophisticated legal analysis and insightful counseling to her clients in the communications and information technology industries. While in public service working in a variety of roles including Acting General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and Division Chief in the FCC’s Media Bureau, Jennifer tackled a broad variety of legal issues impacting media and technology companies. She has played a role in some of the largest media transactions considered by federal regulators, and she has been on the cutting edge of legal issues while in public service and on behalf of private clients. Her expertise includes transactions, media issues, video competition, administrative law, and privacy. Jennifer started her professional life as a social worker, working with children in the foster care system in the District of Columbia.

With almost two decades of experience in government, in both NASA missions and policy, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s space and aeronautics portfolios. Her policy work includes Earth Observations, Orbital Debris, Microgravity research in Low Earth Orbit, Space Weather, In-space Servicing Assembly and Manufacturing, Aeronautics, and space science. Her NASA 17-year engineering career spanned contributions to Earth Observations, planetary science, heliophysics, astrophysics, human exploration, and space communications missions. She earned an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and masters degrees in Aerospace Systems, Space Robotics, and Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, MIT, and Harvard University respectively. She also earned a doctorate degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. She has received several NASA awards and the 2023 Commercial Space Federation Commercial Space Policy award. Her story is profiled in President George W. Bush’s book, Out of Many, One.

Lauren Van Wazer, is Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, for Akamai Technologies, a $3.6B cloud computing and cybersecurity services company doing business in over 140 countries. She also serves on the board of Ossia, Inc., where she is Chair of the Regulatory Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. She’s a member of the board of the Akamai Foundation and the Board of Visitors of Georgetown University Law Center. She is a past Chair of the Board of the Information Technology Industry Council, the largest global technology trade association. She is a member of the North America Regional Advisory Council for ISC2, the largest global cybersecurity certifying organization with nearly 300,000 members.

Through 2013, she was Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). At OSTP, she was the lead for cybersecurity and her work was recognized with the OSTP Award for Excellence for contributions to science and technology policy. Previously, Van Wazer served as Assistant General Counsel in OMB’s Counsel’s office and as Associate Chief for the Office of Engineering and Technology of the Federal Communications Commission. Van Wazer also spent several years as the head of regulatory affairs for Cox Enterprises, a $16B media company. Before becoming a lawyer, she worked as a network engineer for AT&T.

Van Wazer received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a B.S.E. in Systems Science Engineering.

David C. Vladeck is the A. B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches federal courts, civil procedure, and a practicum in which students work to solve privacy issues that stem from emerging technologies. He also is faculty director and cofounder of the law school’s Center on Privacy and Technology. During the Obama administration, Professor Vladeck directed the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Before joining the Law Center faculty full-time in 2002, he spent more than 25 years with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a nationally prominent public interest law firm, handling and supervising complex litigation. Professor Vladeck serves on the board of the National Consumer Law Center. He frequently testifies before Congress and writes on administrative law, privacy, preemption, the First Amendment, and access-to-justice issues.

Miriam Vogel is the President and CEO of EqualAI, a non-profit created to reduce unconscious bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and promote responsible AI governance. Miriam cohosts a podcast, In AI we Trust, with the World Economic Forum and also serves as Chair to the recently launched National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC), mandated by Congress to advise the President and White House on AI policy. Miriam teaches Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where she serves as chair of the alumni board, and serves on the board of the Responsible AI Institute (RAII). Miriam also serves a senior advisor to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).

Previously, Miriam served in U.S. government leadership, including positions in the three branches of federal government. Most recently, she served as Associate Deputy Attorney General, where she advised the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) on a broad range of legal, policy and operational issues. Under the direction of DAG Sally Yates, Miriam led the creation and development of the Implicit Bias Training for Federal Law Enforcement. Miriam also spearheaded the Department’s Intellectual Property (IP) efforts to identify and dismantle IP theft domestically and internationally and worked with the DAG to manage Department divisions’ multibillion-dollar budgets, resolve high-level challenges, and represent the Department in briefings for White House, congressional and GAO staff on policy initiatives and oversight matters.

Miriam served in the White House in two Administrations, most recently as the Acting Director of Justice and Regulatory Affairs. She led the President’s Equal Pay Task Force to promote equality in the workplace. She also advised White House leadership on initiatives ranging from women, LGBT, economic, regulatory and food safety policy to criminal justice matters.

Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Miriam was Associate General Counsel at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and practiced entertainment/corporate transactional law at Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles. Miriam began her legal career as a federal clerk in Denver, Colorado after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center and is a third generation alumna from the University of Michigan.

Pamela Whitney serves as Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives. Formerly, she was a Senior Program Officer at the Space Studies Board at the National Academies, where she directed studies and workshops on space science, policy, international cooperation in space, and served as the Executive Secretary of the U.S. national committee to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU).