Anna Lenhart

Anna Lenhart is an independent scholar. She most recently served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Maryland, where her research focuses on public engagement and social construction of expertise in tech policy and the intersections of privacy, transparency, and competition. She served in the House of Representatives as the senior technology legislative aide to Rep Lori Trahan (117^th Congress) and as a Congressional Innovation Fellow for the House Judiciary Digital Markets Investigation (116^th Congress). Prior to working for Congress, Anna was a senior consultant and the AI Ethics Initiative lead for IBM’s Federal Government Consulting Division, training data scientists and operationalizing principles of transparency, algorithm bias and privacy rights in AI and machine learning systems.