Allison Stanger was a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. She is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, co-director of the GETTING-Plurality Research Network at Harvard University, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her book Who Elected Big Tech? is forthcoming from Yale University Press, and she is also the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy. Stanger’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Wired, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post, and she has testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Oversight Panel, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. She received her PhD in political science from Harvard University.