Announcing the 2025 #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellows

By

Bridget Chan

We are excited to announce our Class of 2025 #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellows. Our third cohort of eight Fellows will be focusing on a range of consequential cybersecurity topics, including artificial intelligence, that will crosscut policy issues in 2025 and beyond. The research our Fellows conduct are a glimpse into the most urgent questions facing our next generation of cybersecurity leaders, and will contribute valuable insight into the future of cybersecurity and emerging technology. Our Fellows this year will be conducting a variety of projects in artificial intelligence, critical infrastructure, and human-centered cybersecurity.

The #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship received proposals from diverse, midcareer professionals to conduct independent projects and research on a cybersecurity or technology issue of their choice. During their fellowship, Fellows will attend professional development workshops aimed at strengthening their public engagement skills, network with experts, and publish their work with New America. We look forward to supporting their work this upcoming year!

Meet our 2025 #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellows

Nina-Simone Edwards is currently a Fritz Fellow and Senior Institute Associate at Georgetown University Law Center's Institute for Technology, and will be mapping how vulnerabilities in people's personal lives, such as limited digital literacy or shaky internet access, interact with online security risks.

Mason Gunter is a climate investor at Elemental Impact, and will be exploring how the transition to clean energy and the development of artificial intelligence poses unique risks to vulnerable communities, with an eye towards developing tools to help communities assess these technology deployments.

Zino Haro is the co-founder and cybersecurity lead of Youth for Privacy, and will focus on the use of artificial intelligence in cybercrime, with a particular focus on how AI-enabled cybercrime impacts youth populations and introduces them to a cybercriminal life path.

Seungmin Helen Lee is a Senior Engagement Manager for cyber risk and Director of Intelligence Cyber Research (ICR) at Next Peak, and will focus on the AI supply chain and developing recommendations for collective resilience among the United States and Asian allies in the AI supply chain and industry.

Chanwool (Chan) Leem is a Master's in Cybersecurity Policy at Stanford University's Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy program, and will explore how traditional security policy instruments, including the application of mutual defense treaties to cyberspace, can be adapted to meet an evolving digital environment.

Adriana Stephan is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researcher and policy analyst and PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute, and will be focusing on AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery, how deepfakes are created and distributed, and address legal frameworks governing deepfakes.

Ibrahim Waziri Jr., PhD is a Principal Product Manager for Cybersecurity Governance and Engineering at Microsoft, and aims build a toolkit to help translate regulatory requirements into practical engineering terminologies, aiming to help engineering teams develop secure and compliant software products more effectively.

Jocelyn Woolbright is a Program Lead on Cloudflare's Public Policy team, and will be examining the alignment and gaps of cybersecurity policies in democratically-aligned nations, with a focus on how these policies protect individuals' digital rights.

About the #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship

The #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship (#STMIC Fellowship) invests, grows, and platforms traditionally underrepresented communities in support of strengthening our nation's resilience to digital threats. Our fellowship program provides cybersecurity professionals with an opportunity to conduct policy research and analysis, access professional development, examine critical cyber security issues, and explore questions of diversity and the human side of cybersecurity. We believe that the cybersecurity workforce must be representative of of our nation's citizenship, is vital to national security, and we are focused on investing in promising leaders reflective of our nation and global community.