Anna Lenhart is a 2020 Congressional Innovation Fellow who served with the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee under Chariman David Cicilline (D-RI), where she worked supported work on technology oversight and investigations. Before becoming a TechCongress fellow, Anna was a Senior Consultant and the AI Ethics Initiative Lead for IBM’s Federal Government Consulting Division, where she trained data scientists and operationalized principles of explainability, fairness and data-subject rights in AI and Machine Learning systems.

In the first episode of our Fellow Series, we sit down with Anna to talk about her work as a technologist, what motivated her to join TechCongress, and the issues she's looking forward to working on during her fellowship.