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Her work has been honored with many awards, including a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, a research fellowship at the Berggruen Institute, a Mozilla Creative Award, a Salzburg Global fellowship, and a Creative Capital award. She is a frequent collaborator with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as a board member for Digital Peace Now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/687fdd691d0a2e7c31469a98/e19f463d-5a20-468f-93bb-f54c23292a73/Sam_headshot.png Welcome - Sam Tyner-Monroe Board Member Sam Tyner-Monroe is a Digital & Technology Director at Manatt, where she advises organizations on the governance, testing, and oversight of AI systems. Her work sits at the intersection of law, policy, and applied statistics, with a focus on evaluating model performance, identifying bias and failure modes, and translating technical findings into defensible governance and compliance strategies. Before joining Manatt, Tyner-Monroe advised clients on responsible AI implementation as a managing director at one of the world’s largest law firms, and previously worked as a data scientist in legal technology. She also served as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. She earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University and a B.A. in Mathematics, Economics, and French from Augustana College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/687fdd691d0a2e7c31469a98/0333c821-f5ca-42e7-bf9c-f15da089b434/jacob.jpg Welcome - Jacob Appel Board Member / Officer Jake is an algorithmic auditor with deep expertise in assessing algorithm performance and their impacts on stakeholders. As ORCAA's Chief Strategist for over six years, he specializes in designing tests and analyses to assess the performance of algorithms. Before joining ORCAA he worked with the Behavioral Insights Team, where he advised state and local governments on incorporating behavioral science “nudges” into citizen-facing policies and programs, and testing them with randomized experiments. Jake holds a BA in Mathematics from Columbia University and an MPA from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is co-author of More Than Good Intentions: How a new economics is helping to solve global poverty and Failing in the Field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/687fdd691d0a2e7c31469a98/ed75dde6-3465-46c7-b028-d596f885a3ae/775287_Brennan-Center_Laura-Strausfeld__0_00-015_x2_CC_0-3064256783.jpg Welcome - Laura Strausfeld Board Member Laura Strausfeld specializes in constitutional law advocacy and policy reform. She is the Associate Director of Institutional Relations at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she manages foundation, corporation, and law firm fundraising. Her law and policy nonprofit, Period Law, continues the work she began at Period Equity, fighting for tax-free, toxin-free menstrual supplies that are freely available to everyone who needs them. Strausfeld has a wide-ranging project-based background, including as a plaintiffs’ attorney; development strategist for nonprofits and companies including the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Agenda Management + Production; writer, director, and producer of theater and film; and Anton Chekhov scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. She has a BA in history from Yale University and a JD from Columbia University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/687fdd691d0a2e7c31469a98/dcb6b0ed-f690-402f-bb05-11b19523e88d/tom.jpg Welcome - Tom Adams Executive Director Thomas Adams has over twenty-five years of business and legal experience. He has represented banks, companies and individuals on corporate, securities and business law matters. He also provided strategic advice, litigation support and expert witness testimony on issues relating to the financial crisis. Mr. Adams is an expert in creating solutions and solving problems for complex financial and corporate transactions and has provided strategic advice and analysis to banks, insurance companies, private equity companies, hedge funds and a variety of other companies. He graduated from Fordham Law School in 1989 and Colgate University in 1986. He is admitted to practice in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/687fdd691d0a2e7c31469a98/81062502-e86b-4098-81de-50244e57fa4f/andy.jpg Welcome - Andrew Smart Board Member Andrew Smart is a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research investigating the philosophical and social foundations of AI. His interests range from algorithmic auditing to social ontology. He is also a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Australian National University where he is investigating the relationships between social ontology, causality, and estimating risks and impacts of machine learning in high-stakes domains. He is the author of two books and more than 30 peer reviewed papers on AI, society and ethics. Prior to Google, Smart was a research scientist at Twitter, Novartis, and Honeywell Aerospace, working on data science, medical device safety, clinical research, and safety engineering in aviation. He holds a master's degree in cognitive science from Lund University and worked as a junior research scientist at NYU on brain imaging of human language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/687fdd691d0a2e7c31469a98/a64d5054-382b-45cf-8c80-8a05030acd83/cathy.jpg Welcome - Cathy O’Neil Board Member / Officer Cathy O'Neil has been an independent data science consultant since 2012, advising clients including the Illinois Attorney General's Office and Consumer Reports. She founded ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, and received her PhD in mathematics from Harvard. Her analysis was honed working as a quant at D.E. Shaw and a professor at Barnard College. O'Neil is the author of Doing Data Science (2013), the bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), which won the Euler Book Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award, and The Shame Machine (2022). 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