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.

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Lori Garver

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

Earth Observation for Sensible Climate Policy

Dan Hammer

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

Earth Observation for Sensible Climate 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

Section 230: A Reform Agenda for the Next Administration

Ezinne Uzo-Okoro

Chief, Small Spacecraft Mission Design Division at NASA and Harvard Kennedy School Dublin Fellow

The Lunar and Asteroid Task Force Initiative

Christopher Coes

VP for Land Use at Smart Growth America

Leverage Transit-Oriented Development Loan Programs to Accelerate Equitable Economic Recovery

Alex Leader

Senior Associate at Luminary Labs

Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation Through Business-to-Business (B2B) Data Sharing

Ashley Holub

Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Devices Epidemiology at Johnson & Johnson

Creating an Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative for PPE and Other Medical Device Supplies

Ann Mei Chang

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

Accelerating Innovation, Performance, and Impact at USAID

Dean M. Evasius

Former Director for the Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation

A Convergence Directorate 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

Accelerating Deployment of Innovations to Modernize the U.S. Electric Grid

Cheryl Martin

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

Creating a National Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Scientists and Engineers

Ilan Gur

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

Creating a National Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Scientists and Engineers

Kevin Wei

Graduate AI Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology

Creating Transparency and Fairness in Automated Decision Systems for Administrative Agencies

Alex Dehgan

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

Preventing the Next Pandemics: An Upstream Approach to Novel National Security Threats

Fernando Gómez-Baquero

Director of Runway and Spinouts at Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute

Creating a National Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Scientists and Engineers

David Zipper

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

Sustaining the Biking Boom

Grace Collins

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

Securing the Nation’s Educational Technology

Sabrina Merlo

Head of Local Response at Open Source Medical Supplies

Building Medical Supply Chain Resilience through a U.S. Manufacturing Reserve and Digital Stockpile

Amina Fazlullah

Equity Policy Counsel for Common Sense

Supporting Equitable Access to Education by Closing the Homework Gap

Michael Stebbins

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

Adopting an Open-Source Approach to Pharmaceutical Research and Development

Creating the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA)

Open Access to Federally Funded Research Data

David Crotty

Editorial Director of Journals Policy for Oxford University Press

Open Access to Federally Funded Research Data

Monique Chism

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

A Focus on Teacher Effectiveness, Shortages, and Cultural Proficiency

Ida Sim

Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

Open Access to Federally Funded Research Data

Stephen Posner

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

A National Initiative to Revitalize American Farming and Advance Regenerative Agriculture

Andrea Ippolito

Lecturer at Cornell University and former Presidential Innovation Fellow

Transforming Infant Nutrition to Give Every Baby a Strong, Healthy Foundation

Steph Guerra

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

Expanding the Health Policy Mission of the Veterans Health Administration

Jen Goldsack

Co-founder and Executive Director of the Digital Medicine Society

Building Trust In the Health Data Ecosystem

Greg Rosston

Director of the Public Policy Program at Stanford University

Creating a Broadband Data Dashboard to Support Federal Communications Commission Decision-Making

Ellen Goodman

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

Creating a COVID-19 Commission on Public Health Misinformation

Blair Levin

Former Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt

Creating a Broadband Data Dashboard to Support Federal Communications Commission Decision-Making

Increasing Public Engagement and Transparency at the FCC by Holding a Second Monthly Meeting

Creating a COVID-19 Commission on Public Health Misinformation

Scott Wallsten

President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute

Transforming Infant Nutrition to Give Every Baby a Strong, Healthy Foundation

Helen Toner

Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Have Your Data and Use It Too: A Federal Initiative for Protecting Privacy while Advancing AI

Roxanne Heston

Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Have Your Data and Use It Too: A Federal Initiative for Protecting Privacy while Advancing AI

Gigi Sohn

Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and Former Counselor to the FCC Chairman

Restoring the Federal Communications Commission’s Legal Authority to Oversee the Broadband Market

Eric Breckenfeld

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

A National Secure Electronics Initiative

Geoff Ling

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

Creating the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA)

Orin Hoffman

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

A National Frontier Tech Public-Private Partnership to Spur Economic Growth

A Foundational Technology Development and Deployment Office to Create Jobs

Katie Rae

CEO & Managing Partner of The Engine

A National Frontier Tech Public-Private Partnership to Spur Economic Growth

A Foundational Technology Development and Deployment Office to Create Jobs

Michael Kearney

Senior Associate at The Engine

A National Frontier Tech Public-Private Partnership to Spur Economic Growth

A Foundational Technology Development and Deployment Office to Create Jobs

Mrunali Manjrekar

Engineering Student at University of California, Berkeley

Strengthening the U.S. STEM Talent Pipeline Through a National Youth Innovation Showcase

Ilana Harrus

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

Leveraging Machine Learning to Reduce the Cost and Burden of Research Proposal Review at S&T Agencies

Kathy Stack

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

Harnessing Data Analytics to Improve the Lives of Individuals and Families: A National Data Strategy

Reform Education’s General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) and Grants Administration Processes

Sridhar Kota

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

Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation

Tom Mahoney

Associate Director of MForesight

Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation

Nick Maynard

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

Smart Cities Technologies: Driving Economic Growth and Community Resilience

Phil Weilerstein

President of VentureWell

Closing Critical Gaps from Lab to Market

Shaheen Mamawala

Senior Development Officer at VentureWell

Closing Critical Gaps from Lab to Market

Heath Naquin

Senior Global and Government Liason Officer at VentureWell

Closing Critical Gaps from Lab to Market

Sam Rodriques

Founder of the Applied Biotechnology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute

Focused Research Organizations to Accelerate Science, Technology, and Medicine

Adam Marblestone

Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow and Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Focused Research Organizations to Accelerate Science, Technology, and Medicine

Ruth Milkman

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

Modernizing Radio Spectrum Management

Jon Peha

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

Leading the Way: A National Task Force on Connected Vehicles

Dipayan Ghosh

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

Diminishing Russian Influences

John Leibovitz

Venture Partner at Columbia Capital and Former Deputy Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau

Modernizing Radio Spectrum Management

David Hart

Professor at George Mason University and Former Assistant Director for Innovation Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

National Energy Storage Initiative

Mark Santos

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

Establishing a National Water Technology Pipeline

Patrick Gonzalez

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

Preventing Catastrophic Wildfire Under Climate Change

Bill Bonvillian

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

Restoring U.S. Leadership in Manufacturing

Ben Levine

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

A Civic Research Initiative to Transform State and Local Government

Marcus Courtney

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

Responding to the COVID-19 Unemployment Crisis and Meeting the Future of Work Challenge

Mary Wooley

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

Modernizing the Relationship between Scientists and the Public

Mario Cardona

Former Senior Policy Advisor on the White House Domestic Policy Council

Ending Violence in Schools

Donna R. Cryer

President & CEO of the Global Liver Institute

Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis

Jennifer Erickson

Former Associate Director of Innovation for Growth at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis

Crystal A. Gadegbeku

Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis

Greg Segal

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

Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis