Lynn Overmann serves as Senior Policy Advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In this role, Lynn oversees Team CTO’s Social and Criminal Justice reform efforts, focused on leveraging data and technology to safely reduce incarceration, link people to effective treatment in the community, and improve human outcomes. Lynn also co-leads the White House Police Data Initiative, which focuses on using data to drive more effective community policing practices and opening police data to increase transparency and accountability.

Prior to her work at the CTO’s office, Lynn was a Presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice, helping to launch the Access to Justice Initiative which focused on criminal and juvenile justice reform, and improving legal services to the poor. Additionally, Lynn spent a year deployed as a senior advisor to the Mayor of New Orleans, helping to implement a range of reforms reducing the city’s jail size, helping launch the city’s first ever plan to end homelessness, and developing a project link to domestic violence legal service providers to local law firms for comprehensive pro bono representation. Before joining the Obama Administration, Lynn was a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in Miami, Florida, specializing in police brutality and jails conditions cases. She began her career as a public defender. Lynn graduated from the NYU School of Law and received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College.

Mike Wagers is the Public Safety Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, where he advocates for the adoption of reliable, scalable and inexpensive technology to drive change in policing. Prior to joining AWS, Mike was the Chief Operating Officer at the Seattle Police Department, where he helped infuse technology into the department, including designing its Real Time Crime Center and Compstat process, holding its first hackathon, developing blurring software for body camera video, and creating a YouTube channel for police video. Prior to Seattle, Mike served as the Director of Law Enforcement Operations and Support at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice from Rutgers.