The [Public Lab nonprofit](/about) received 501(c)3 status on October 24, 2013 (retroactive to January 2, 2012). The current board members of Public Laboratory include: **Catherine Bracy** is [Code for America's](http://www.codeforamerica.org/) Director of Community Organizing. Until November 2012, she was a product manager and director of the Obama campaign's technology office in San Francisco. She also did outreach to the tech community for Tech4Obama. Prior to joining the campaign, she ran the Knight Foundation's 2011 News Challenge and before that was the administrative director at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. **Eymund Diegel** is a South African trained urban planner who first became interested in real time mapping technologies when creating maps for constantly changing informal settlements in Africa. With the digital technology revolution, he is exploring how personal media devices, such as cell phones, can create network maps of how people live in their communities, and how those "density trails" can provide more accurate mapping. He lives by the Gowanus Canal, a polluted Superfund site in Brooklyn, NY, where he works with community groups to create time lapse "digitally transparent" maps, for neighbors to better understand what was historically under their feet, and what they can do about it. **Bobbie L. King Jr.** is an associate in the corporate finance group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP's New York office. From 2011 to 2013, he was an associate in the US corporate group of Skadden's London office. From 2010 to 2011, he was an associate in the general corporate practice of Skadden's Boston office. Prior to joining Skadden, he served as deputy finance director of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's re-election campaign and as an adjunct professor at Emerson College. He has also served as Public Lab's legal counsel since its incorporation in 2011. **Micah L. Sifry** is co-founder and editorial director of Personal Democracy Media, which produces the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference on the ways technology is changing politics, and techPresident.com, an award-winning blog on how politicians are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. He is a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation, which he helped found in 2006, and also serves on the board of Consumer Reports. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently [Wikileaks and the Age of the Transparency](http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/wikileaks/) (OR Books, 2011), and in the spring of 2012 he began teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School. From 1997-2006, he worked closely with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on comprehensive campaign finance reform, as its senior analyst. Prior to that, Micah was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. He is the author of [Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America](http://www.amazon.com/Spoiling-Fight-Third-Party-Politics-America/dp/0415931436) (Routledge, 2002), co-author with Nancy Watzman of [Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day](http://www.amazon.com/That-Politician-Your-Pocket-Washington/dp/B005K5M3ZA/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3) (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), co-editor of [Rebooting America](http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/) (available online for free download at rebooting.personaldemocracy.com), and co-editor of [The Iraq War Reader](http://www.amazon.com/Iraq-War-Reader-Documents-Opinions/dp/0743253477/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2) (Touchstone, 2003) and [The Gulf War Reader](http://www.amazon.com/Gulf-War-Reader-Documents-Opinions/dp/0812919475/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4) (Times Books, 1991). His personal blog is at micah.sifry.com and you can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif. **Dr. Christine Walley** is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She conducts research on environmental politics in both East Africa and the United States. Her first book Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park (Princeton University Press, 2004) explored contestation over Tanzania?s first national marine park as well as competing conceptions of nature and development found among international environmental organizations, island residents, and national government officials. Her second book Exit Zero: An Anthropologist?s Account of Family and Class in Southeast Chicago (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) considers the environmental implications of the rise and fall of the steel industry on Chicago?s Southeast Side and engages with questions of environmental justice. Past Board Members: **Mikel Maron**, 2011-2012