Rachel Shelden is a professor of history and director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University.

Daniel Podair is an associate in Steptoe’s Investigations and White Collar Group, specializing in matters involving cybersecurity and data privacy.

Andrew C. Adams is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Group of Steptoe LLP, and previously served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Acting) for the National Security Division, the i...

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi is Head of U.S. Federal Civilian Policy at Google, focused on bringing innovative technologies into the government. Prior to Google, he worked for the U.S. government and was a liti...

Megan Thomas is a JD candidate at Georgetown University Law Center specializing in National Security and International Law. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology from Pepperdin...

Janneke Parrish is a labour activist and tech organiser, known for her work in the #AppleToo movement. Her work has been instrumental in reshaping conversations around workers' rights within Silicon Vall...

Fabian Hoffman is a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo.

Nadav Pollak is a lecturer on Middle East affairs at Reichman University and a former research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Akash Wasil is a senior research associate at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). His work focuses on the intersection of AI and national security. Before working in AI policy, Aka...

Daniel Skeffington is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, working on the historical exercise of the war prerogative by the British government and its relation...

Chris Johnson is a director of Legal Affairs and Space Law for Secure World Foundation and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University.

Josh Dawsey is a political investigations and enterprise reporter for the Washington Post.

Ashley Parker is a senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post.

Marlene Laruelle is a research professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University, and director of GW's Illiberalism Studies Program.

Sophia Paslaski is a 3rd-year JD candidate at the University of Maine School of Law. She holds a BA from Emerson College and an MA in Comparative and International Social Policy from the University of Y...

Roya Ensafi is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, where her research focuses on Internet security and privacy, generating systems to protect users o...

Anna Ablove is a Computer Science & Engineering PhD student at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on network security and Internet freedom, particularly at the intersection of computer scie...

Harry Oppenheimer is an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, where he studies the intersection of international security and the digital economy. His resear...

Mandy DeRoche is a deputy managing attorney in the Clean Energy Program at Earthjustice.