The Blockchain Ethical Design Framework

Cara LaPointe is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University within the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, where she works at the intersection of technology, policy, leadership, and ethics. Over the last two decades, LaPointe has held a diverse range of technical, acquisition, research, and operational roles, including at the White House, the United Nations, and the United States Navy. LaPointe is a patented engineer and a White House Fellow, and she holds degrees from the United States Naval Academy, the University of Oxford, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lara Fishbane is a Research Assistant at the Brookings Institution within the Metropolitan Policy Program. Fishbane is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she studied economics and English and researched issues related to poverty, labor, and education policy. Previously, she worked at the nonprofit 826DC, where she taught in inner-city schools in Washington, D.C., and explored the relationship between writing and education reform. Fishbane has served as a reporter at Forbes, Kiplinger, and the Georgetown Voice, with a focus on financing higher education and innovation in classrooms.