PLEN Women in STEM Policy

Allie Brandenburger is Co-founder & CEO of TheBridge, a non-partisan organization connecting tech, innovation, policy, politics, focused on building understanding and collaboration among these cultures. Allie has organically grown the community of leaders and expanded into cities... Read More →

Afua Bruce has spent her career developing and applying technology in service of the public interest. She is currently the Director of Engineering for New America's Public Interest Technology program. At New America, Afua oversees a team of technologists working with state and local... Read More →

Lieutenant Colonel Lauren A. Courchaine is an Operations Officer in the Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations Division under the Directorate for Global Operations on the Joint Staff. In this position she supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal military... Read More →

Dr. Amelia Estwick is the Program Director at the National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College (NCI) and is a Thought Leader for Excelsior College’s cybersecurity research, training, and academic initiatives. Prior to her position at Excelsior College, she worked for the... Read More →

Anjelica Dortch is a Technology Policy Executive within the Government and Regulatory Affairs team at IBM where she focuses on the company’s policy priorities for responsible artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and blockchain technology. Prior to joining IBM... Read More →