Team

The people behind the next POPVOX.

Team

Builders with roots in Congress, civic technology, and legislative data.

Marci Harris

Co-founder / CEO

Marci Harris

JD/LLM

Marci co-founded POPVOX to make policymaking more transparent, accountable, and usable for people inside and outside government. Her work connects legislative process, civic participation, and technology for democratic institutions.

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As founder and CEO of POPVOX.com and the Executive Director of the nonprofit POPVOX Foundation, Marci is passionate about the responsible use of technology to improve government and benefit humanity. She is a lawyer and former Congressional staffer, who worked on the House Ways and Means Committee's Affordable Care Act team. She has held fellowships with Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democracy and the New America Foundation, and taught public policy, government, and civic technology courses at the University of San Francisco, San Jose State University, and the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of the forthcoming book RECONSTITUTION: A Blueprint for American Governance in the Age of Acceleration.

Ben Harris

Chief Operating Officer

Ben Harris

Ben manages the day-to-day operations of the company and supports hardware deployment and operations of legislative data infrastructure.

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Ben graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2001 where he earned a BS in Aviation Technology. He is an FAA Certified mechanic and commercial pilot. He is a "CO:founder" of theCO in Jackson, TN, a public-private partnership co-work, makerspace and code academy designed to bring cutting edge technology and education to rural West Tennessee. Ben is a 2005 graduate of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce "Leadership Jackson" program, and a proud Boy Scout board member.

Bryan Dease

Chief Technology Officer

Bryan Dease

Bryan leads the technical architecture and engineering behind POPVOX's legislative intelligence platform, building systems that make public data reliable, accessible, and ready for the AI era.

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Bryan has a passion for all areas of web technology from coding and deploying websites to maintaining servers and working on mobile platform solutions. In his own words his goal is to "support great design with solid code under the hood". His main areas of expertise are PHP (Laravel), MySQL, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS. Bryan has worked with interactive studios based both in St. Louis and Tennessee. Most recently, with Anode in Nashville, he built interactive exhibits for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Public Library. In his spare time he enjoys playing guitar, traveling and attending Nashville Predators games.

Anne Meeker

Director of Government Innovation

Anne Meeker

Anne bridges the gap between government institutions and modern technology, guiding innovation strategy that respects the complexities of democratic process.

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Anne Meeker is a former congressional casework director. She joined POPVOX, Inc. in 2020 and helped create the nonprofit POPVOX Foundation, where she served in a variety of roles including as Managing Director and created the Foundation's Casework Navigator program. Her testimony before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress in 2024 inspired recommendations that led to the CaseCompass project, an effort to aggregate and organize the House's incoming casework. She regularly advises Congress on casework best practices and incorporating technology into casework workflows.

Anne previously served as a Fellow with OSU's Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability. She holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of Oxford (St. Hugh's College), and an MSc in History from the London School of Economics. She is also a proud Clevelander, and will take any opportunity to talk up the Rust Belt.

How we work

Institutional knowledge, public trust, and modern infrastructure.

Nonpartisan by design

Legislative intelligence should make the public record easier to understand without steering people toward outrage or performance.

Built with the process

We design around the real workflows of lawmakers, staff, committees, institutions, advocates, and the people they serve.

Infrastructure first

POPVOX.com is the public experience; trusted legislative data foundations support the work underneath.

Marci Harris

Marci Harris

Founder and CEO, POPVOX

Rachna Choudhry

Rachna Choudhry

Co-founder, POPVOX

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For Rachna, advocacy has always been about sharing personal stories to influence policymaking. After 10 years of advocacy and lobbying for several nonprofit organizations, she co-founded POPVOX based on her experiences and frustrations connecting with lawmakers.

She offers grassroots advocacy strategy to organizations, helping them engage their supporters and amplify their voice. Rachna serves on the board of PLEN, which trains women for policy careers. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and a Master's in Public Policy from Georgetown University's McCourt School. She's based in Washington, DC.

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

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Tim O'Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O'Reilly Media, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years. The company delivers online learning, publishes books, and runs conferences about cutting-edge technology, and has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry.

If you've heard the term "open source software", "web 2.0", "the Maker movement", "government as a platform", or "the WTF economy", he's had a hand in framing each of those big ideas. Tim is also a partner at early stage venture firm O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and on the boards of Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and POPVOX.

He is the author of many technical books published by O'Reilly Media, and most recently WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017). He is working on a new book about why we need to rethink antitrust in the era of internet-scale platforms.