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Announcing the Summer 2025 Class of Science and Technology Policy Fellows

Article Published June 12, 2025

We’re thrilled to announce the 15 participants of our Summer 2025 Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. These Fellows are currently participating in our intensive, month-long policy bootcamp in San Francisco, where they are gaining the skills necessary to impact policy. Fellows are learning to transform their subject matter expertise into policy through tools like policy writing, public speaking, stakeholder mapping, and solution scoping.

The Summer 2025 Science & Technology fellows are:

Daragh Byrne, Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture
Geoffrey Fowler, Technology Columnist at The Washington Post
Hande Güven, Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft
Anand Habib, Hospitalist physician and health policy researcher
Julia Lane, Assistant Vice President for Science at the University of Chicago and Federal Strategy Advisor at Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP)
Lauren Mushro, Head of Product and Academic Research at Sapien
Sarah Nekoufar, Sustainability strategist and environmental health expert
Blair Palmer, Epidemiologist, Partnerships and Resource Mobilization at UNICEF Office of Innovation
Arfa Rehman, Co-founder of Chorus Health
Michelle Sipics, Director of Special Projects at Accenture Innovation
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, CEO of Tech Diplomacy Network, Bay Area, and PhD Student of Economics, Science and Technology Studies at the Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Carlos Javier Torres, Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama
Amber Nicole Turner, Information Science PhD Student at the University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica Wang, Software engineering leader
Marcelo Yates, Software Engineer at Indeed

After completion of the program, participants will have the option to create an Academy-supported final policy project where they will define a problem, produce solutions, and pitch their proposals to real stakeholders. Many past policy projects have been adopted by government agencies and companies.

For more information about the Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, see here. To learn more about the current fellows, you can read their bios here.

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