>>> Emily Tianshi is a Master’s student in Computer Science at Stanford University. She first became interested in public interest technology while interning at the San Diego Mayor's Office and has since worked at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, NATO’s Cyber Defense Center in Estonia, and the Stanford Cyber Policy Center on projects involving open-source software security, security by design, and election integrity. At Stanford, she leads voter registration efforts to expand civic participation and develops ethics curricula for computer science courses.
>>> Medhya Goel studies computer science and government at Stanford University. Her interest in public interest technology began while working at her local courthouse, and she has since helped revive Stanford’s Public Interest Technology Lab. Previously, Medhya has engineered systems serving millions of users at Meta and Stripe, contributed to a federal cybersecurity Executive Order at the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, built disinformation-tracking tools at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and automated criminal records expungement at Rasa Legal.