Founder & CEO

With the Bitcoin creator revealing himself, we FEATURE Alicia Syrett. Alicia Syrett is the Founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of New York Angels, as the Chairman of the Board of HeTexted, and is a member of WomenCorporateDirectors. Her past and present Advisory Board roles include Enerknol, iFunding, Cuipo, The Pitch Deck, Beauty Booked, Cissé Trading Co. and Willa. She is a frequent mentor, writer, and speaker in the startup ecosystem. Media includes: CNBC, MSNBC, Fox Business News, USA Today, Sirius XM Radio,

Senior Researcher

Teacher's in Detroit are striking over the city's lack of ability to pay them over the summer, for details we FEATURE Emma Garcia. Emma García is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. She specializes in the economics of education and education policy. Her areas of research include analysis of the production of education (cognitive and noncognitive skills); returns to education; evaluation of educational interventions (early childhood, K-12, and higher education); educational equity; human development; international comparative education; and cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis in education.

Trial Lawyer, former prosecutor and Assistant Attorney General for MD Member, Supreme Court Bar

With President Obama's support for smart gun technology, we FEATURE Debbie Hines. Debbie Hines is a Washington, DC based practicing trial attorney, former Maryland prosecutor and member of the Supreme Court bar who is an expert in criminal law, high profile criminal cases, gun laws, death penalty cases and voting laws. She often addresses legal issues at the intersection of race and crime. As a former felony prosecutor, she tried homicides, attempted murders, rapes, burglaries, robberies, narcotics and economic crimes before juries with a high conviction rate. Media includes: MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, BET, C-Span, NPR, CCTV- America, TV One, Fox 5 (WTTG), Huffington Post.

Regulatory, Public Policy & Government Affairs

With Google and Microsoft withdrawing all regulation complaints against one another, it seems as if these tech giants are trying to fend off government oversight, for analysis we FEATURE Lauren Wilson. Lauren works on a broad range of Internet, media and telecommunications issues and advocates for the public interest before the Federal Communications Commission, Congress, the courts and other federal and state agencies. She serves on the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee. In 2014, Forbes named Lauren to its 30 under 30 list in the law and policy category. Media includes: Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Truth Out, Forbes