Meet the Team

Aamir Ahmed

Software Engineer
Back-end Lead

Amanda Welsh

Advisor
Computational Linguistics

Andrew Shi

Research Apprentice
Natural Language Processing

Angelina Valentino

Research Apprentice
Behavioral Psychometrics

Anuj Dakhara

Apprentice
Research & Software Engineering
Applied Math & CS @ SUNY Stony Brook

Bea Dimaculangan

Chief Operating Officer

Damani Thomas

Software Engineer
Team Leader, NLP/NLU

Dr. David Edelsohn

Advisor
AI/ML Research

Devon Smith

Advisor
Communications Strategy

Ed Grauer

Advisor
Legal + Business Development

Emmaa Afful

Research Apprentice
Biology & Society

Fiona Huynh

Research Apprentice
Human Resources
Pschology @ CUNY City College

Hannah Peyton

Advisor
Government & Politics
White House Liaison

Hasib Shaif

Software Engineer
Full-stack

Ismael Larrosa

Chief Product Officer
Pulp
Founder & CEO, Capicua

Jeff Adams

Board of Directors
Speech & Language Director
Creator of Amazon's Alexa

Jeff Anaraj

Advisor
Software Scalability
CTO, Cybership.io

Jeff Harris

Chairman, Board of Directors
Director of Partnerships

Jen Cerny

Advisor
Behavioral Economics & Education
Master Instructor, Culver Academies

Jeremy Meyers

Advisor
Finance & Allocation Strategy
Principal, Lee Equity Partners

Jessica Folkes

Team Lead
Market Research
Business @ Mercy University

Jessica Qiu

Data Analysis & Visualization
Apprentice
Electrical Engineering @ Boston University

John Lander

Advisor
Artistic Experiences

Jonas Margono

Apprentice
Technical Research
Mech. Engineering @ The Cooper Union

Justin Chu

Software Engineer
Full-stack
Computer Science @ CUNY Hunter

Kadija Bah

Apprentice
Marketing & Business Development
Humanities @ New York University

Kamy Akhavan

Advisor
Civic Technology & Politics
Director of Political Future @ USC

Kip Morales

Advisor
Education Technology
USA Teacher of the Year, 2016

Michelle Lam

Apprentice
Human Resources
Psychology @ CUNY Hunter

Mike Carper

Advisor - Applied Statistics & Data Science

Mohamed Traorey

Business Development Apprentice

Mohammed Ihtisham

Front-end Software Engineer

Nafiz Mannan

Advisor - Media Analytics & UX

Nasir Nasir

Apprentice
Financial Modeling
Finance @ CUNY Baruch

Palina Pyachinskaya

Apprentice
Back-end & Data Extraction
CS @ Worcester Polytechnic

Pat Arcadipane

Chief Financial Officer
Pulp
30+ Years Corporate Finance Experience

Paula Brillson

Advisor
Copyright Law

Robin Isenstadt

Head of Workforce & Apprenticeships
Pulp
Assistant Director of Workforce @ CASW

Sandy Chen

Analyst
Marketing & Business Communications
Digital Marketing @ CUNY Baruch

Shah Ullah

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Pulp
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Capicua.com

Sharon Chen

Advisor
Impact Measurement
Research Impact, Revent Capital

Sherrie Liu

Advisor
Marketing Data Science
Sr. Data Scientist, The Home Depot

Skyla Kirton

Youth Apprentice
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Brooklyn Technical High School

Ted McConnell

Advisor
Civic Impact & Politics
Chairman Emeritus, CCMPS

Terrence Pender

Business Development
Technology, Media, Telecom
Audience & Casting Producer, Viacom

Toby Chaudhuri

Public Relations
Founder & CEO, Social x Design
Communications Strategy Consultant

Uday Turakhia

Head of Technology
Full-stack Engineer + NLP Researcher
Computer Science @ SUNY Stony Brook

Wayeez Giash

Team Lead
FE Design & Interaction Engineer
Computer Science @ CUNY Lehman

Wen Zhang

Advisor
Mental Health & Data Science
Pro Mental Health Counselor

Will DuVal

Advisor
Logic
Head Pastor, West Hills Lutheran Church

Shah Ullah

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Bea Dimaculangan

Chief Operating Officer

Jeff Harris

Director of Partnerships

Uday Turakhia

Head of Technology
Full-stack Engineer + NLP Researcher
Computer Science @ SUNY Stony Brook

Ismael Larrosa

Chief Product Officer
Launched over 300 Products

Ismael Larrosa

Product Director
Founder & CEO, Capicua

Robin Isenstadt

Head of Workforce

Pat Arcadipane

Chief Financial Officer

Jen Cerny

Research and Education Specialist
Master Instructor, Culver Academies

Nafiz Mannan

Head of UX Analytics

Jeff Adams

Speech & Language Director
Creator of Amazon's Alexa

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