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Photos of Sanjay Udani, Anita Allen, Ani Nenkova, and Peter Bloom PIT@Penn Career event

PIT@Penn, a new student group dedicated to facilitating discourse between engineers, scientists, technologists, and policy leaders.
This inaugural career speaker panel will feature four panelists who will speak about their careers in public interest technology:

  • Anita Allen, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Anita L. Allen is an internationally renowned expert on privacy law and ethics, and is recognized for contributions to legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education.
  • Ani Nenkova, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. Ani Nenkova’s main areas of research are computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on developing computational methods for the analysis of text quality and style, discourse, affect recognition and summarization.
  • Sanjay Udani, Vice President, Technology Policy, Verizon Communications. Sanjay Udani is a technologist and currently serves as Vice President for Public Policy at Verizon. In addition to developing and coordinating Verizon’s policy positions on emerging services and technologies, Sanjay uses his expertise to help external and internal stakeholders better understand policy debates on a variety of issues including 5G networks, cybersecurity, privacy, spectrum, and how the internet works. He has briefed a wide variety of audiences, ranging from Members of Congress and Verizon’s Board of Directors to elementary school students.
  • Peter Bloom, General Coordinator and Founder, Rhizomatica. In 2009, Peter Bloom began working in Nigeria as a development consultant and media maker and lived in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria for two years co-founding the Media for Justice Project based outside of Port Harcourt. Since 2009 Peter has been coordinating Rhizomatica, an organization he started to promote new communication technologies that helped start the first community-owned and managed cell phone network in the Americas in 2013. Peter is both an Ashoka and Shuttleworth Foundation fellow since 2014. For his work on telecommunications and community development, in 2015 he was named an MIT Technology Review Innovator under 35 and to Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers list.
The speakers will be introduced by Christopher Yoo, Penn’s PIT-UN representative and the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science.
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