Tyler Deaton is a bipartisan issue campaigner, legislative strategist, and fundraiser. As the president of Allegiance Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm, Tyler advises donors and manages projects on a wide range of issues, including LGBTQ rights, healthcare, immigration, education, and combating extremism.

Meredith Potter came to ASF from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), where she sought to accelerate U.S. investment in technologies, including by negotiating and operationalizing strategic partnerships with Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. Her focuses – emerging technologies, particularly AI; U.S. competitiveness; Indo-Pacific security; global stability; and China’s impacts on all four – are the results of her relationship with Henry

Kissinger, whose research, writing, and continued involvement in foreign policymaking she

facilitated for more than six years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped Dr. Kissinger, Dr.

Eric Schmidt of Google, and Dr. Dan Huttenlocher of MIT co-write their book, The Age of AI. She's also worked for the Atlantic Council, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the State Department, where she was a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF). She's a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a double graduate of Yale University, where she completed the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.