Amina is a Research Assistant at Plurality Institute. She holds an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology. Previously, she worked as the first Data Science hire for a venture-backed creator economy platform. Her interests include Computational Social Science and Affective Computing.

David is the Special Projects lead at Plurality Institute. With over 20 years in software engineering, he has helped shape large-scale infrastructure and AI projects at early-stage Google, Facebook, and Asana. Now he delves into multi-agent reinforcement learning and collective intelligence-inspired AI. He co-founded Plurality Institute to advance collective intelligence research. His work blends practical engineering with a quest to explore AI's broader potential.

Firen is the chief of staff at Plurality Institute. She is also the President of Ignite Talks, a global public speaking community. Previously she was a Project Manager at Sentz, an open-source blockchain-based cash app inside of Signal. She was the Founder and CEO of Nightingale Birth Center, a women’s health clinic. She holds an MBA in Global Business with a specialization in Entrepreneurship.

Ian is a research engineer at Plurality Institute, and a visiting scientist at the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI. As a career software engineer for nearly three decades, he's built many things. Some of the more interesting ones were at Dropbox, Wikipedia, and Pivotal Labs. He was the co-founder/CEO of Threadable, a YCombinator-backed collaboration software startup. His present goal is to bring the best parts of industry software engineering practice to academic research, at the intersection of AI and human cooperation/conflict.

Isaac is a Research Assistant at Plurality Institute. He holds an M.A. in China Studies from Peking University and a B.A. in Political Economy from UC Berkeley. Previously, he’s worked in strategy consulting and user experience research, and conducts research on Chinese governance of critical technologies. He's fluent in Mandarin Chinese. His interests include collaborative governance, epistemology, machine learning, and music production.

Jeff is a Research Lead at Plurality Institute and a PhD student at Harvard Business School, where he conducts research in the economics of digitization and technology governance. He has academic and professional background in statistics, science & technology studies (STS), and technology policy. Previously, he has been involved at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and worked as a Data Scientist at Airbnb.

Katrina Belda has 15+ years of experience in operations, marketing, and sales at early-stage startups. Previous work includes Head of Customer Success at HandUp.org; Sales & Customer Success at Winnie, the largest childcare marketplace in the U.S.; and early operations development at Postmates (acquired by Uber Eats). She holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Peter is a Research Engineer at Plurality Institute. He's also a lead developer of OpenBallot, a platform for creating and sharing voter guides. His work focuses on the uses of data and software to promote prosocial behavior. Previously, he worked as a data scientist and data engineer at cybersecurity and automation startups in the Bay Area and has an academic background in statistics and philosophy.

Rose is the Executive Director of Plurality Institute. She also serves as the Board President of homeless service nonprofit Community Forward SF. Her previous work includes: Co-founder and CEO of HandUp.org which has raised $7.44M for people experiencing poverty in the US; Special Projects at intelligent robotics startup Vicarious PBC including AI ethics and workforce development research; founding CEO of GiveCrypto.org; and Data Manager for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Rose was listed in the Top 100 People in Tech by Business Insider.