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Zach Graves

Associate Fellow, R Street Institute

Zach Graves is head of policy at the Lincoln Network, Technology and Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, and an associate fellow at the R Street Institute working on technology and governance issues. He is also founder and former director of R Street’s technology and innovation policy program.

Prior to joining R Street in 2013, he previously worked at the Cato Institute and the America’s Future Foundation. He is also a fellow at the Internet Law and Policy Foundry and a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

He holds a master’s from the California Institute of the Arts and a bachelor’s from the University of California at Davis.

Zach is married and lives in Washington, DC.

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RSVP for the May 18 Meeting

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