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’s Background in Building Tech for Democracy: Jamie has led technical teams through a nonprofit she founded which focuses on making sure democratic systems survive the 21st century. Her teams have been contracted or tasked to build intelligence products for PhD researchers, non-profit organizations, think tanks (one working with a U.S. senator), a U.S. city, AI companies, and members of the general public. Her work has included drafting legislation, building decision-making models for local governments, modeling civilization-scale policy debate, authoring intelligence briefs, designing AI research tools, and pioneering an entirely new method called "Scaled Democratic Reasoning” - a new form of logical reasoning at scale.

• She co-launched Democracy's Library at the Internet Archive: The Internet Archive (best known for the Wayback Machine) sought Jamie out to launch a massive effort to digitize and open up U.S. local, state, and federal government documents. Jamie got to work diagnosing challenges with records management at every level of government and wrote a lengthy landscape analysis. The Superintendent of Documents of the United States flew from D.C. to California to join her and the Archive when she presented this work. This expertise is what, in part, informs her perspective on how we can get more Epstein files.

• With her team, she helped map the entire U.S. government including documenting hundreds of executive branch agencies in order to understand available levers of change, government mandates, and the records they hold.

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

• 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.

• She's given dozens of talks, including in 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. for 3 months to negotiate with DOGE to protect agencies. One agency she wanted to protect was NARA, and it seems that NARA was never cut by DOGE. She was then 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). This is not the only internal government briefing Jamie has been asked to make.

• The Foresight Institute (which has backed multiple future Nobel laureates) named her a Collective Intelligence fellow.
  
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Recognition of her work in AI: 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 some of the biggest names in the AI field, and is endorsed by one of the producers. OpenAI and xAI have both invited her in to present her work internally. Her work has been mentioned in a published scholarly work by Anthropic AI researchers - specifically writing on the topic of democracy. World-renowned AI ethicists, activists, movement builders, and even some top CEOs count her as a trusted confidante. She is endorsed by one of the most world-famous AI ethicists.

Understanding the debate about AI: Jamie has been mapping the debates about AI for years (building databases of papers, public commentary, and government policy), 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.

What she is bringing to the table: The part of the MAD Act (which Jamie authored) that is dedicated to AI is 240+ 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 harms.

Why this matters: 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 campaign promise. It needs a plan for AI that actually works.

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International Environmental and Humanitarian Work: 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. Projects she oversaw included:

• providing job training to women in Kirkuk, Iraq to enable women to find independence

• enabling pre-teen girls to attend school in Malawi

• providing technical education to 5 schools in Kenya

• funding solar panels distribution programs in subsaharan Africa to curb health impacts of kerosene lamps

• and many more

By “overseeing projects,” this means that Jamie vet project applications with a team, allocated funding to local project leaders, developed impact measurement studies to execute, implemented a schedule for data collection, and reviewed results to evaluate if such project were successful and could scale.

Community Work: Today, she sits on the board of the Sand Mandala Foundation, which funds artists. From her home in Berkeley, she manages a historic building as a part-time job which she opens up as cost-free venue space for the community: silent meditation retreats, choir practice, birthday parties, community theatre, weddings, art shows, and memorials. Jamie is also a community archivist. When she lived in Orlando during the Pulse Shooting at a gay nightclub, Jamie launched the World Wide Web Peace Project to capture the voices of local Orlandoans’ response to the shooting and their support for the LGBTQ community. Jamie also went to local mourning sites and sealed letters, notes, and cards in plastic to protect them from the Florida rain. She also helped collect these artifacts to donate to the local historical society.

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.

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