Task force members are drawn from local and national experts and community leaders. The Task Force is also served by a government advisory panel with designees from Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh. Learn more about the Task Force's work.
Pittsburgh Task Force on Public Algorithms Members
Rachel Berger – Chief, Child Advocacy Center, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Director, Child Abuse Research, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Esther Bush – President, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh
Alexandra Chouldechova – Assistant Professor of Statistics and Public Policy, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
David Danks – Department Head & L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Department of Philosophy, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Ángel Díaz – Lecturer in Law, UCLA School of Law
Courtney Ehrlichman – CEO, The Ehrlichman Group
Rosta Farzan – Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Sara Goodkind – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Department of Sociology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
Ellen Goodman – Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law
David Harris – Sally Ann Semenko Endowed Chair, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
David Hickton – Founding Director, Pitt Cyber, University of Pittsburgh
Yu-Ru Lin – Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Sharon McDaniel – Founder, President, and CEO, A Second Chance
Michelle McMurray – Vice President of Program and Community Engagement, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Mark A. Nordenberg – Chair of the Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh; Chancellor Emeritus of the University; Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Beth Schwanke – Executive Director, Pitt Cyber, University of Pittsburgh
LaTrenda Sherrill – Lead Consultant, Common Cause Consultants; former Deputy Chief (Education), Office of the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh
Michael Skirpan – Executive Director, Community Forge; Special Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Nyssa Taylor – Criminal Justice Policy Counsel, ACLU of Pennsylvania
Frederick Thieman – Henry Buhl, Jr. Chair for Civic Leadership, Buhl Foundation; Chair, CCAC Board of Trustees; former US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Task Force members are serving in their individual capacity.
Government Advisory Panel
The task force is served by an advisory panel composed of designees from Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh.
Chris Belasco – Manager, Data Services, Department of Innovation and Performance, City of Pittsburgh
Erin Dalton – Director, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
T. Matthew Dugan – Chief Public Defender, Allegheny County Office of the Public Defender
Joanne Foerster – Director of Performance and Analytics, Allegheny County
Heath Johnson – Manager, Crime Analysis, Pittsburgh Bureau of Police
Laura Meixell – Enterprise Data Architect, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Shatara Murphy – Assistant Director, Community Affairs, Department of Public Safety, City of Pittsburgh