Anna Lenhart

Anna Lenhart was recently a Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy Director for Policy and Acting Deputy Director for Science and Society Division. Prior to joining OSTP, she was a Knight Policy fellow at George Washington’s Institute for Data Democracy and Politics. 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 (117th Congress) and as a Congressional Innovation Fellow for the House Judiciary Digital Markets Investigation (116th 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.