https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/edtech-equity/
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by Nidhi Hebbar and Madison Jacobs, with support from Matthew Volk and Elizabeth Allendorf
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Black and Brown students in American public schools battle discrimination in many forms:...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/closing-the-tech-funding-gap/
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by Mariah Lichtenstern
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Current technology startup capitalization policies put under-represented tech startup founders at a disadvantage, contributing to discriminatory financing practices that cost the U.S. an estimated 9 million jobs and $300...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/people-powered-policy/
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by Amy Wilson, with support from Mariah Lichtenstern
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City governments often struggle to obtain real-time feedback from their constituents on impending policy decisions. At the same time, constituents from...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/combating-election-disinformation/
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By Elizabeth Allendorf and Matthew Volk, with support from Matt Sievers and Cecilia Donnelly Krum
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Every day, tens of millions of Americans view political advertisements on social...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/automated-advocates/
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By Jessica Cole with support from Nidhi Hebbar and Raylene Yung
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The United States faces a crisis in its civil courts, where more than 80% of low-income households...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/climate-change/
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By Raylene Yung with support from Anjana Rajan
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To avoid the worst effects of climate change, scientific consensus states that CO₂ emissions must decline 40 to 60 percent by...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/helpful-alternative-link-protocol/
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By Alexander Romero with support from Amy Wilson
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When disaster strikes, reliable and easy-to-use communications become absolutely critical. Dependable communications are needed to pair those in distress with those...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/voting-from-abroad-reducing-obstacles-for-military-and-overseas-voters/
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by Hilary Braseth
Military and overseas voters are one of the most disenfranchised demographics in the country. In the 2020 election, military and overseas voters voted at a...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/reinvigorating-the-international-entrepreneur-program/
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by Max Katz, Nancy Mandujano, Stephanie Pakrul, Chris Torres, and Katarina Watney
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https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/aspen-tech-policy-hub-fellows-release-interactive-digital-governance-and-policy-projects/
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Fellows will present their projects in San Francisco on Wednesday, Nov. 13, as part of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub Demo Day – San Francisco event.
San Francisco, CA, November 13, 2019 – The Aspen Tech Policy Hub,
a West Coast-based...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/dillon-cruz/
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Dillon Cruz is a senior software engineer at Sidewalk Labs, where he designs sensors to improve city streets. Previously, Dillon built autonomous vehicles at Cruise, and led a nonprofit partnership with the City of San Francisco that provided free wireless internet to thousands of unhoused individuals. He...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/aspen-tech-policy-hub-cybercrime-support-network-online-crime-fraud-reporting/
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The collaboration will leverage research and a prototype form developed by members of the inaugural class of Aspen Tech Policy Hub fellows
San Francisco, CA, January 8, 2020 – The Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) and the Aspen Tech Policy...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/aspen-tech-policy-hub-second-cohort/
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Innovative technologists and engineers make up the talented cohort of fellows who will learn how to shape and advocate technology policy
San Francisco, CA & Washington, DC, January 8, 2020 — The Aspen Tech Policy Hub
announced its second cohort of Incubator...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/sridevi-joshi/
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Sridevi Joshi is a Co-Founder and Chief Technologist at Foresight Resilience Strategies, Inc. She was previously the Director at a Chemical Technology Company and Founder of a nonprofit aimed at promoting the lives of underprivileged and economically disadvantaged girls. Sridevi has a double Master’s in Materials Science...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/matt-perkins/
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Matt Perkins is a cleantech industry veteran, with a recent successful acquisition of his breakthrough Air Conditioning start-up by Emerson Climate Technologies, the world's largest HVAC compressor manufacturer. Previously, Matt was the Chief Digital Officer of GE's Power Conversion business. Matt studied Materials Science & Engineering at...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/jason-botts/
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Jason Botts serves as a fractional executive advisor, Chief Innovation Officer, and Head of Technology and Innovation for a handful of private sector companies. He previously led information technology strategy and operations at Martin Marietta, an S&P 500 materials company, and more recently, at Chiltern International, a...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/brian-sager/
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Brian Sager is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Reveal Networks, Inc., which detects patterns within text. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Omnity, Inc., a computational linguistics-focused company. Prior to Omnity, Brian was the founding president of a solar company leveraging...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/new-projects-inaugural-tech-executive-leadership-initiative-cohort/
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San Francisco, CA - In honor of the last day of our second cohort of the Tech Executive Leadership Initiative (TELI), we are pleased to share five exciting projects from our first TELI cohort. Last fall,
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/mary-kombolias/
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Mary Kombolias is a consultant focused on environmentally sustainable manufacturing. Previously, she worked as a scientist for the US Federal Government and was an eighth grade science teacher. Mary holds an MS in Chemistry from the University of New Orleans and completed her thesis research in the...
https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/announcing-train-the-trainer-short-courses/
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The Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub is thrilled to announce the launch of our Train the Trainer short courses. We're piloting the Train the Trainer short courses to train experienced policy professionals to teach our methods for policy impact, so that we...