Panel: Impactful Careers

Andres Gomez Emilsson** (Stanford Transhumanists Association) Andrés Gómez Emilsson studied Symbolic Systems (with an Artificial Intelligence concentration) at Stanford, and later finished a masters in computational psychology at the same university. During his time at Stanford he co-founded the Stanford Transhumanist Association and became good friends with David Pearce, taking on the flag of the Hedonistic Imperative. Thus his ongoing interest in the functional, biochemical and quantum substrates of pure bliss. He is currently working at a Natural Language Processing startup in San Francisco, and in his free time he develops psychophysical tools to study the computational properties of consciousness (for more seequaliacomputing.com) Ted Gwartney (Robert Schalkenbach Foundation) Ted Gwartney currently serves as President of Robert Schalkenbach Foundation (RSF), a non-profit organization established in 1925 to spread awareness of the ideas of the social and economic philosopher Henry George (1839-1897). In 2012, Gwartney retired from a long career as a City and County Assessor. His positions included Assessor for the Cities of Greenwich, CT, Bridgeport, CT, Hartford, CT, and Southfield, MI. He also served as Deputy County Assessor of Sacramento, California. Gwartney holds an MAI in Professional Designation from theAppraisal Institute. Jessica Jane Robinson (Resilience Birthright) Jessica Jane Robinson holds a BA degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice, minor in dance from the University of San Francisco. She participated as Miss Alameda for the 2010 and 2011 Miss California USA pageant, with the platform of reducing landfill, greenhouse gas emissions, promoting clean technology and energy. Jessica is an environmental advocate, producer, director, actress and ballerina. Jessica is now focusing her energy on “Resilience: Birthright,” a trans-media project, addressing the global emergency of climate change, sea level rise and the trashing of our planet. Joshua C. Vincent (Center for the Study of Economics) Joshua Vincent has been an Executive Director at the Center for the Study of Economics since August 1997. Vincent has worked pro bono and as a consultant to over 75 municipalities, counties, NGOs and national governments. Vincent is the editor and publisher of Incentive Taxation, a journal that reports on land value taxation. Sonja Trauss (San Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation) Sonja Trauss is a principal at SF Bay Area Renters’ Federation, which agitates in favor of market rate development, because she believes increasing supply is the only way out of SF’s housing problem. Previously, Sonja worked as a high school math teacher and as a hotline paralegal specializing in foreclosure defense for the Philadelphia Legal Assistance. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Temple University and a M.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. —

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