Hi, I’m Kevin

I work on policy in Washington, DC. I enjoy thinking about system and institutional design, public policy communication, free knowledge, internet policy, artificial intelligence, and dispute resolution.

I currently work in the U.S. Senate as a legislative fellow on artificial intelligence in the office of Senator Martin Heirnich of New Mexico.

Learning and knowledge hold a special place in my heart. Outside of work, one of my deepest passions is volunteering for Wikipedia, which must be, despite its flaws, one of humanity’s finest creations. I’ve been a Wikipedia editor for a decade and an elected administrator for five years. I am currently an elected member of Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, the decision-making body of final appeal for Wikipedia’s most serious disputes. I also currently serve on the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors.

I also love cooking and baking, backpacking and camping, taking strolls (alone or with others) through the city, engaging in intentional community, and especially playing board games. Board game aficionados, please get in touch!

I hold a master’s degree in public policy from Stanford University, where my graduate capstone research practicum was conducted at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) under the direction of Dr. Jen King. In grad school, through HAI, I advised the California Privacy Protection Agency on the design of regulatory requirements establishing access, disclosure, and opt-out rights for automated decision-making technology. In undergrad, I also studied public policy and a computer science minor at Stanford.

I previously served as Special Advisor for AI Policy at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where my projects included writing for the open-weight AI models workstream (the Report to the President on Dual-Use Foundation Models with Widely Available Model Weights), the AI Accountability Policy Report, and AI-related portions of NTIA’s advisory role in the triennial rulemaking process under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

I also previously worked as a technology policy analyst in the Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation in San José, CA, and as a research intern at the Technology Policy Institute. I previously taught computer science through codeConnects (a program of The Coding School) and served as a teaching assistant for Stanford’s “Introduction to Public Policy”, “Economic Analysis I”, “Justice”, “Politics and Policy in California”, and “Energy, Clean Innovation, and Sustainability”.