B is a technology and facilitation expert who is passionate about creating social change by empowering everyone to participate in technological and social governance.
B is the Director of Emerging Technologies for Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute. They empower people with understanding about the opportunities and tradeoffs associated with technologies like artificial intelligence. B also serves as a board member to Metagov, an interdisciplinary research nonprofit promoting digital self-governance, and as a 2026 Siegel Research Fellow.
Previously, they advised Senator Ron Wyden on issues of privacy, internet governance, and algorithmic accountability through the Congressional Innovation Fellowship. B continues to serve as a mentor to incoming Congressional fellows. Prior to Congress, B was a Research Program Lead at the Partnership on AI, a non-profit multi-stakeholder initiative to address the most important and difficult decisions on the future of artificial intelligence. B led PAI research in areas such as fairness, transparency, AI’s impact on labor.
B has also served as Senior Engagement Lead for IBM Watson, where they led strategic conversations with world leaders about AI and patented a spooky authentication technique. They were also recognized as an IBM LGBT+ ‘Out Role Model’ for championing diversity and inclusion in and beyond IBM. B earlier served as Director of both Product Development and Community at Exploding Kittens, a record-breaking crowdfunded card game startup. B also co-led Phenomenon Media 501c3, an arts and education nonprofit, developing an educational tool for teaching code without the need for computers.
B received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Texas at Dallas and was selected as an MIT-Harvard Assembly Fellow for the 2019 Ethics and Governance in Artificial Intelligence Initiative cohort. B also served as 2025 assistant program chair for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference.
