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Across the FieldOur Team
We’re a collaborative team that approaches technology, equity, and justice from a range of perspectives and experiences. We work across communities and disciplines, bringing together our strengths to drive policy change and advance racial and economic justice.
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Staff
Vee Copeland
Senior Policy Analyst
Survives off of lumpia. Rogue social worker. Lover of the nap ministry.
Mariah de Leon
Research Associate
A big fan of books, baseball, and baking. Guided by honesty and neverending to-do lists.
Natasha Duarte
Project Director
An honest but humble critic. Chooses her words carefully. Loves to get lost in the weeds and find her way back.
Mitra Ebadolahi
Senior Project Director
Compulsively forthright and kind. Librarian’s daughter, letter writer. Dogs, donuts, diaspora.
Urmila Janardan
Senior Policy Analyst
Led by curiosity. Equal parts goofy and intense. Avid gardener and biker.
Miriam Osman
Research Associate
Probably making stew, eating fruit, or thinking about historical materialism.
Emily Paul
Project Director
Interested in redistributing power around technology to the people most impacted by it. Aspiring poet.
Amber Akemi Piatt
Managing Director
Finds people's passion contagious. Liable to laugh inappropriately loudly. Dance, analogy, and pomegranate enthusiast.
Emma Weil
Senior Policy Analyst
Empathetic and always learning. Loves silliness, the dramatic, and a good critique.
Harlan Yu
Executive Director
Highly excitable, but disturbingly calm under pressure. His default answer is always “yes.”
Beza Zenebe
Operations Associate
Enthusiastic, sometimes overly-so. A fan of Philly sports minus the aggression but still all of the heartbreak, and a lover of music who enjoys fiddling around with her flute.