Anne brings a history of successful corporate engagement, strategic partnerships, and nonprofit leadership to her role as Director of Corporate Partnerships at the Data Science Institute. Anne previously served as a national program manager at the American Red Cross. There, she led several high-impact initiatives, including the Annual Disaster Giving Program, where she successfully partnered with over 150 top corporations to advance the organization’s disaster relief efforts.

Anne’s experience extends beyond national borders, having served as an international strategic advisor, where she worked closely with sister Red Cross Societies to craft and implement comprehensive resource mobilization strategies. Before her work at the Red Cross, she served on the Development team at Equal Justice Works, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a sustainable pathway for recent law graduates to enter public interest law.

Anne also holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Harris School at the University of Chicago.

Raul Castro Fernandez is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. In his research he builds systems for discovering, preparing, and processing data. The goal of his research is to understand and exploit the value of data. He often uses techniques from data management, statistics, and machine learning. His main effort these days is on building platforms to support markets of data. This is part of a larger research effort on understanding the Economics of Data. He is the faculty co-lead of the DSI’s Data Ecology Research Initiative and he is part of ChiData, the data systems research group at the University of Chicago.

Chris Zhu is currently a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Chicago, advised by Professor Raul Castro Fernandez. He is broadly interested in data systems, and currently working on Data Station, a system for enabling data sharing. Before his doctoral studies, Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.