Our Team

The staff, board and advisors of TechEquity.

Staff

Catherine Bracy

CEO & Founder
Jonathan Mehta Stein

Managing Director
Samantha Gordon

Chief Advocacy Officer
Tim Newman

Senior Vice President of Programs, Labor
Megan Abell

Vice President of Advocacy
Vinhcent Le

Vice President of AI Policy
Kimberly Davis-Wells

Vice President of Communications
Danya Sherbini

Vice President of Data and Technology
Sesoo Igbazua

Senior Director of Administration and Finance
German Calderon

Senior Manager of Community Outreach and Engagement
Lili Siri Spira

Senior Manager of Communications
Swati Chintala

Senior Research Manager, Labor
Keirstan Schiedeck

Senior Manager, Project Management & Operations
Hannah Holloway

Research Manager, AI
Erika Pollack

Advocacy Manager

Board of directors

Advisors

Michael Akinwumi

Chief Tech Equity Officer at the National Fair Housing Alliance
Chris Benner

Professor and Director at UC Santa Cruz, Institute for Social Transformation
Annette Bernhardt

Director, Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
Roberto Clack

Executive Director of Temp Worker Justice.
Maria Noel Fernandez

Executive Director of Working Partnerships USA
Natalie Foster

President of the Economic Security Project
John Green

Managing Principal at Blackstar Stability
Saun Hough

CA Partnerships Manager for Californians for Safety & Justice
Aiha Nguyen

Program Director of Labor Futures Initiative at Data & Society Research Institute
Desiree Nguyen Orth

Director of the Consumer Justice Unit of the East Bay Community Law Center and Lecturer at Berkeley Law
Laura Padin

Director of Work Structures at National Employment Law Project
Jenny Schuetz

Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute
Leah Simon-Weisberg

Legal Director at ACCE Institute
Shannon Wait

Former data center worker and organizer
Ken Wang

Policy Associate/Policy and Compliance Counsel at California Employment Lawyers Association
Harlan Yu

Executive Director of Upturn