Kat Duffy is the Labs Director at the Sunlight Foundation, where she guides the development of technological tools that make government and politics more accountable and transparent. Prior to joining Sunlight, Kat served as a Senior Programmatic Strategist in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State, where she oversaw foreign assistance programs aimed at promoting transparency, democratic participation, electoral reform, governmental accountability and the free flow of information around the world. She received her BA from Yale University and her JD from the University of Michigan and has lived and worked in Cuba, Colombia, and South Africa. She currently lives in Washington D.C. with her husband, two children, Cuban cat, and Colombian dog.

Matthew Heston is a PhD student at Northwestern University in Technology and Social Behavior, a joint degree in Computer Science and Communication Studies. He works in the Social Media Lab where he conducts multi-methods research broadly in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Mediated Communication.

Matthew spent the summer of 2014 as an Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he worked on building a machine learning system to automatically detect and extract earmarks from congressional bills.