Meet our 2025 Senior Fellows
The FAS Senior Fellows Program helps policy entrepreneurs capitalize on a unique policy window to advance innovative policy priorities that drive positive change. Our Senior Fellows serve as expert voices and resources on key issue areas, cultivate relationships and broker partnerships between FAS and key research, policy, and advocacy communities, provide subject matter expertise and guidance for FAS staff, participants in FAS policy accelerators and workshops, and much more. Our Senior Fellows will be collaborating with Georgetown University’s Tech & Society Digital Services Alumni Fellows on their projects. The Digital Services Alumni Fellowship is a program for mid-career civil servants to continue developing their skills as part of a critically important cadre of next generation tech and policy leaders. Learn more about our Senior Fellows, the Digital Services Alumni Fellows, and their work below
strategic partnerships
evidence-based research
economic development,
workforce development
energy permitting,
clean energy
open government,
democratizing data
public service delivery,
open data
State Capacity,
Economic Mobility,
Crisis Response
STEM education,
government innovation,
government capacity,
civic technology
energy permitting,
clean energy
To fight the climate crises, we must do more than connect power plants to the grid: we need new policy frameworks and expanded coalitions to facilitate the rapid transformation of the electricity system.
We’re launching an initiative to connect scientists, engineers, technologists, and other professionals who recently departed federal service with emerging innovation ecosystems across the country that need their expertise.
It takes the average person over 9 hours and costs $160 to file taxes each year. IRS Direct File meant it didn’t have to.
Fellows Brown, Janani Flores, Krishnaswami, Ross and Vinton will work on projects spanning government modernization, clean energy, workforce development, and economic resiliency
About the Senior Fellows
Quincy K. Brown served as Director of Space STEM and Workforce Policy on the National Space Council in the White House Office of the Vice President. She will design a participatory, strategic foresight process to identify solutions to the most pressing challenges we face in the evolving science and technology ecosystem. She will leverage data-driven insights, strategic partnerships, and evidence-based research to shape national policy, scale innovative initiatives, and cultivate cross-sector collaborations.
Maryam Janani Flores served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Economic Development Administration at the Department of Commerce, where she oversaw policy, strategy, and operations for a $5 billion grant portfolio. She will focus on broad-based participation in innovation ecosystems by placing recently departed federal scientists, engineers, and technologists in innovation hubs nationwide to build inclusive, durable innovation ecosystems.
Arjun Krishnaswami served in the Biden-Harris Administration as the Senior Policy Advisor for Clean Energy Infrastructure in the White House. He will take lessons learned at the federal level to elicit adoption of clean technology at the state level, modernizing our nation’s energy grid so that communities across the country can benefit from the greater resiliency, lower costs, and cleaner air that follow from clean energy upgrades.
Denice Ross, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist and Deputy U.S. CTO, will prototype a Federal Data Use Case Repository for documenting and sharing how people across the nation use priority federal datasets from many agencies. Her project is a front-line effort to protect the continued flow of federal data.
Merici Vinton served as a Senior Advisor to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel and prior to that was an original architect of the Direct File service. She will focus on technology innovation to deliver public services in a post “digital services” era, making institutions more relevant and responsive.