Chief of Staff
Tech in the Public Interest
Tech, telecom, and national security regulator and enforcer. Spent time in the trenches as a DOJ trial lawyer, and FTC and FCC privacy, data security enforcer. Past experience in BigLaw and plaintiff-side IP litigation. In a prior life - and perhaps again one day - supported faith-based North Korean human rights, refugees, and humanitarian aid movements.
els_snapshot_today.py outputs an html file (ELS_snapshot_today.html) that provides a dashboard of how long FCC experimental license grants take, with license processing times statistics for drones (UAVs), satellites, and all experimental licenses.
els_granted_today.py Scrapes all FCC ELS applications with status Granted from 01/01/2026 through today, classifies them by application type, and writes a polished HTML dashboard.
Hudson Institute
Financial Times
"Alice Jou, deputy chief of the FCC office of engineering and technology, told a recent Hudson Institute event that the 1934 Communications Act had created a “quiet superpower” by giving the agency responsibility for regulating every consumer device that emits a radio frequency, including Bluetooth and WiFi."