2024 Annual Report: Welcoming New Faces to CDT - Center for Democracy and Technology
webThis is CDT's 2024 annual report page listing new staff hires, including AI Governance Fellows, relevant to AI policy and governance work at a major civil liberties organization influencing tech policy.
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The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) announces new staff members joining in 2024, including AI Governance Fellows and policy analysts across areas like free expression, security, surveillance, and equity in civic technology. The report also highlights new Board of Directors members and the promotion of Asha Allen as CDT Europe's Director. CDT expanded both its U.S. and Brussels offices.
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- •CDT hired AI Governance Fellows (Chinmay Deshpande and Ruchika Joshi) as part of its AI Governance Lab expansion.
- •New policy staff cover areas including security & surveillance, free expression, elections & democracy, and equity in civic tech.
- •CDT Europe expanded with multiple new hires covering equity, security, surveillance, and communications.
- •Three new Board of Directors members were added, including experts in cybersecurity, fair housing, and data innovation.
- •Asha Allen was promoted to Director and Secretary General of CDT Europe.
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2024 Annual Report: Welcoming New Faces to CDT
CDT added a number of new members to our team, expanding both the U.S. and Brussels offices. We were also delighted when Asha Allen was promoted to become CDT Europe’s Director and Secretary General.
The following staff joined CDT in 2024:
Drew Courtney, Director of Communications
Kendal Aldridge, Digital Media and Communications Associate
Kevin Donnelly, Assistant Director, Foundation Relations
Becca Shields, Development and External Affairs Associate
Quinn Anex-Ries, Senior Policy Analyst, Equity in Civic Technology
Tom Bowman, Policy Counsel, Security & Surveillance Project
Becca Branum, Deputy Director, Free Expression Project
Chinmay Deshpande, AI Governance Fellow
Ruchika Joshi, AI Governance Fellow
Isabel Linzer, Elections and Democracy Fellow
Mona Elswah, Project Fellow, Content Moderation for Languages in the Global South
Laura Lazaro Cabrera, Counsel and Director, Equity and Data Program, CDT Europe
Silvia Lorenzo Perez, Director, Security, Surveillance and Human Rights Program, CDT Europe
David Klotsonis, Policy and Research Officer, CDT Europe
Aimée Duprat-Macabies, Advocacy and Communications Officer, CDT Europe
Giulia Papapietro, Communications Trainee, CDT Europe
We also welcomed the following new members to our Board of Directors:
Dr. Lorrie Cranor, Director, CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Lisa Rice, President & CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance
Dominique Shelton Leipzig, CEO, Global Data Innovation
CDT works to strengthen individual rights and freedoms by defining, promoting, and influencing technology policy and the architecture of the internet that impacts our daily liv
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