Hi, I’m Kevin

I live in Washington, DC, where I’m Special Advisor for AI Policy at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Outside of work, I enjoy thinking about system and institutional design, public policy communication, free knowledge, internet policy, artificial intelligence, and dispute resolution.

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.

Learning and knowledge hold a special place in my heart. 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 nine years and an elected administrator for five. 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 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!

Previously, I 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 hold a bachelor’s degree in public policy with a minor in computer science from Stanford University, where my undergraduate capstone focused on the role social capital should take in designing and evaluating public workforce development programs. While at Stanford, I received the Boothe Prize honorable mention award and the Bruce M. Owen Award for Outstanding Public Policy Graduate Student.

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”. In grad school, I was co-president of the Stanford Public Policy Graduate Student Council.