BA, University of Maryland; MPA, Harvard Kennedy School; JD, Yale Law School. Formerly: Fulbright Fellow, Mexico, studying transparency through the lens of Mexico's Freedom of Information Act; law clerk to the Honourable Sandra S. Ikuta on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; practised trial litigation, Keker & Van Nest, San Francisco, representing Silicon Valley and Fortune 500 clients in contract, trade secret, white-collar criminal and patent matters; Adviser to US Army General H.R. McMaster on the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force - Shafafiyat (Transparency), an anticorruption task force at the International Security Assistance Forces headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Co-Founder, OpenGov.