Anna Lenhart
House Antitrust Subcommittee Majority Staff
Anna is committed to the equitable development and implementation of technological systems. She was most recently a Senior Consultant and the AI Ethics Initiative Lead for IBM’s Federal Government Consulting Division, training data scientist and operationalizing principles of explainability, fairness and data-subject rights in AI and Machine Learning systems. She has researched the human right to freedom from discrimination in algorithms, public views on autonomous vehicles and AI's impact on the workforce.
She holds a master’s degree from Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a BS in Civil Engineering and Engineering Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to graduate school, Anna was the owner of Anani Cloud Solutions, a consulting firm that implemented and optimized Salesforce.com for non-profit organizations. She was the Founder of the Next Generation of Service, a non-profit online alternative career center focused on Service Years. Her early career centered on alternative energy and included studying waste-to-energy systems in Namibia on a Fulbright Grant and working at a bio-fuel start-up.
Anna served with the House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee under Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) and supported work on technology oversight and investigations.