AI safety researcher and policy advocate with a decade of leadership in government affairs and business operations. Law-trained, now focused on understanding and shaping public attitudes toward AI risk.
Designed and fielded The 5 Americas of AI Concern - a nationally representative survey (n=2,735) segmenting the U.S. public into five distinct AI concern profiles using latent class analysis
Tested nine informational frames about AI governance across segments to identify which messages shift attitudes for each group
Built a custom focus group streaming platform with real-time sentiment tracking for qualitative validation
Accepted into the six-month MATS 9.1 independent research extension
Built BloodBench (bloodbench.com) - an AI agent benchmark where LLMs play a social deduction game, testing deception, persuasion, and theory of mind. Supports both closed and open-weight models. Live spectator mode with real-time deception monitoring. Selected for the Cadenza Labs Red-Team RFP.
AI Governance & Policy2023 – 2025
San Francisco / Costa Rica
Completed AI Governance (beta cohort) and AGI Strategy courses through BlueDot Impact
Art direction for Intelligence-Curse.ai - AI policy essay series by Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine on the economic risks of AGI concentration
Video production for Species AI - educational AI content
Published AI policy essays on Substack; featured in Jack Clark's Import AI newsletter
Wrote daily throughout November 2025 for Inkhaven
Prior Career
Director of Governmental Affairs2013 – 2022
Brewers Guild of Indiana
Developed and executed legislative agendas with industry stakeholders and contract lobbyists, securing passage of favorable bills across five sessions
Represented industry before state and federal lawmakers; coordinated advocacy in Washington, D.C. and the Indiana Statehouse
Led coalition communications and media outreach on regulatory issues
Founder & Strategic Lead2011 – 2021
Black Acre Brewing Company
Launched and scaled a multi-location craft brewery, expanding distribution region-wide while navigating complex alcohol regulations
Grew to 40 employees across production, sales, and hospitality
Negotiated supply, distribution, and co-packing agreements
Education
Juris Doctor, Digital IP & Commercial Contracts2008 – 2011
IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science & Telecommunications2003 – 2007
Indiana University, Bloomington
Publications
What Should Frontier AI Developers Disclose About Internal Deployments?2026
Defines what frontier labs should disclose about internally deployed models - across capabilities, usage, safety mitigations, and governance - to enable adequate external oversight. arXiv:2604.23065