Jamie has a passion and expertise in governance systems. Over the past decade, Jamie has worked in "civic/democracy tech," which is the global movement of technologists working to modernize government and make it more transparent, accessible, and effective. Here are some highlights:

• Jamie has spent 7+ years working on the future of democratic governance. Jamie has led teams drafting legislation through computational construction (not LLMs), built decision-making models for local governments, modeled civilization-scale policy debate, authored intelligence briefs, designed AI tools, and pioneered an entirely new method called "Scaled Democratic Reasoning." Her team's scholarly paper on it drops this year.

• She co-launched Democracy's Library at the Internet Archive: a massive effort to digitize and open up U.S. local, state, and federal government documents. The Superintendent of Documents flew from D.C. to California just to see her present the work. And her expertise in government documents will come in handy in the Epstein era.

• She mapped the entire U.S. government, including working with her team to document hundreds of executive branch agencies in order to understand available levers of change.

• She's read hundreds of bills, written her own, and taught students from 32 universities how to logically deconstruct legislative text.

• At USC Dornsife's Center for the Political Future, the director personally asked her to build an internship program teaching students the political decision-making models that she invented.

• Jamie is a student of the rationale behind the U.S. constitution, a devout reader about the revolutionary war era, and works to digitize Benjamin Franklin (the famous slavery abolitionist founding father)’s reasoning methods.

• She's given dozens of talks across multiple countries on modernizing democracy for the 21st century, has written several articles, and is contributor to two books (one on the future of democracy).

• Last year she moved to D.C. to negotiate with DOGE to protect agencies, and was asked to deliver an internal government briefing about the importance of digitizing declassified records. A government official at NARA wanted to thank Jamie for this advocacy with a private tour of the U.S. Treaties Vault, where she got to view, in person, the Treaty of Paris (which is the document that Benjamin Franklin signed to end the Revolutionary War).

• The Foresight Institute (which has backed multiple future Nobel laureates) named her a Collective Intelligence fellow.

• She collaborates with some of the world's most renowned democracy technologists on projects shaping the future of democratic processes.

We're entering a new era, one defined by AI and technology, and Jamie's mission is simple: make sure a people-centered democracy survives the transition.

Jamie has spent years in the AI field, leading projects in autonomous research, fact-checking agents, and AI-powered formal reasoning for evidence-based policy. The Future of Life Foundation named her an "AI For Human Reasoning" fellow. She was interviewed for "The AI Doc" alongside the biggest names in the field. OpenAI and xAI have both invited her in to present her work internally. World-renowned AI ethicists, activists, movement builders, and even some top CEOs count her as a trusted confidante.

Jamie has been mapping the debates about AI for years, but she doesn't just study AI issues - she works with it every day, and she knows we both need to take action now and need to make a plan for the longterm.

The part of the MAD Act dedicated to AI is 160+ pages of serious policy, including: immediate red-line regulations, interim safeguards, hammer provisions, and a mandate forcing the government to build a real plan for AI's impact across 19 domains (from jobs to the environment) with the process to draft evidence-based policy. AI/LLMs/ML are great tools, but we need to be sure it works for people - not against them. Jamie wants people to keep building, but do it with guardrails to prevent the most obvious harms.

Most politicians get briefed on AI, but Jamie has worked in and around the field. She's been building with it, documenting its harms, and tracking the debate for years. If elected, she'll bring that hard-won expertise to Congress because America doesn't need another placeholder plan. It needs one that actually works.

Before working in the “democracy field,” Jamie was COO of an international environmental and humanitarian organization, overseeing projects in over 20 countries. She also served on the board of Wikitongues, the nonprofit fighting to preserve all 7,000+ of the world's languages.

During the COVID pandemic, Jamie was the volunteer coordinator of the nation’s largest civilian PPE manufacturing effort, which won awards from the government. Jamie remains an advisor to the company which was formed from it, Hermtac, which provides satellite telehealth services to veterans.

Today, she sits on the board of the Sand Mandala Foundation, which funds artists. Jamie is a multi-award-winning artist in her own right and has worked as a paid artist for two decades. From her home in Berkeley, she manages a historic building that she opens up as free venue space for the community: silent meditation retreats, choir practice, birthday parties, community theatre, weddings, memorials.

Her memberships have included: the Rotary Club, the Society of American Archivists, the American Library Association, the Office of Intellectual Freedom, Nation of Makers, the Freedom to Read Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and the C2PA. She's a Wikipedia editor. She's volunteered for the Human Library. She was an advisor to Atlas Computing. And she co-founded Canonical Debate Labs.

Jamie has always fought for a better world. She's not stopping anytime soon.