The Asterisk: Todays Tech Policy Upload

Join us for this episode where Gustav discusses the shifting landscape of anti-competition law in the face of Big Tech. He dicusses a new way to understand the consumer. Joined by special guest Talia Stringfellow, a member of his student leadership team throughout the semester!

Guest Bio: Gustav Chiarello (MPP’96), a graduate from what was then known as the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI), now the McCourt School of Public Policy, is a leading antitrust and competition policy and enforcement attorney with extensive federal agency experience across all tech sectors. During his more than 17 years at the Federal Trade Commission, Chiarello played key roles in developing competition policy and advocacy, and he led antitrust investigations and enforcement into many matters at the intersection of technology and antitrust within the Bureau of Competition.

Join us for this episode where Joseph Jerome and Michelle DeMooy engage in a riveting conversation about US data privacy legislation, Tiktok and much more! Both from a privacy background, Michelle and Joe explore balance between comprehensive and compromised legislation. Joe also reflects on his time as a Tech and Public Policy visiting fellow having gained many insights from his students.

Guest Bio: Joseph Jerome is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Tampa where he teaches communications law and media ethics. A privacy attorney by trade, he was previously a member of the policy team at Meta Reality Labs where he provided privacy advice on AR and immersive technologies. Before that, he advocated for state tech policy efforts at the Center for Democracy & Technology and Common Sense Media. He also served as policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum and was an associate in the privacy and cybersecurity practice at WilmerHale.

Join us for this episode where Victoria Houed sits down to discuss tech bills in congress, congressional modernization and the effort to push more tech professionals into policy careers. She also reflects on her journey with Tech and Public Policy and the Georgetown students who spent the semester learning from her. 

Guest Bio: Victoria Houed is an engineer turned policy entrepreneur who has dedicated her career to improving the tech policy ecosystem and government modernization. She is currently the director of AI policy and strategy at the U.S. Department of Commerce and senior advisor at the POPVOX Foundation. She was previously a manager at Schmidt Futures where she funded key science and technology policy initiatives and educated relevant stakeholders on how to best advocate for their policy ideas in the legislative and executive branches. Before joining Schmidt Futures, Houed worked as a TechCongress congressional innovation fellow for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where she supported Pelosi during the COVID crisis on all things technology (including broadband, disinformation, antitrust and more). She started her career as a software engineer at Cards Against Humanity and founded BlackByte, a nonprofit for Black women in technology.

Program director Michelle De Mooy talks a little bit about her career trajectory, upcoming trends in tech policy and the TPP program! Stay tuned for a great season.