Annafi Wahed, CFA, has a broad array of experience spanning the federal government, non-profit, political, and private sectors. In 2016, she left her role as a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young to join the Democratic campaign. Walking door to door, she saw firsthand how next-door neighbors could be completely isolated from one another by the media they consume. Annafi launched The Flip Side as a passion project in 2017, and has since spearheaded each new stage of the venture. Annafi’s op-eds have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and USA Today. Her public appearances include everything from Fox & Friends and The Young Turks to being a keynote speaker at the Reagan Foundation.

Jihan Varisco has degrees in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Chicago, and is interested in applying insights from behavioral economics and game theory to improve policy. He studied with several Nobel Prize winners, including the behavioral economist Richard Thaler. He is particularly interested in attempts to model human political attitudes and voting decisions by combining insights from psychology with data-driven AI models.

Matt Harris has over 15 years of software engineering and product leadership experience. He has held leadership positions at Twitter, Uber, and Color Health, taking startups through IPOs and scaling them from tens to thousands of employees. Matt co-invented four patents, and oversaw the autonomy product development of self-driving vehicles and their associated machine teaching and validation infrastructure.