Steering Committee

Executive Director, FFTN

Benjamin Olsen is the founder of interintelligence, an AI advisory services company. He co-founded Microsoft's T4RE initiative, is a pioneer in AI Ethics at Microsoft and in the industry, and advises the AI & Spirituality Initiative at the Neurospirituality Lab at Harvard Medical School. Ben is one of the first technologists to receive a major international religious freedom prize.

Microsoft

Glen Weyl is co-founder of Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory, the RadicalxChange Foundation and the Plurality Institute, as well as FFTN and Microsoft’s T4RE. WIRED recognized him as one of the 25 people shaping the next 25 years of technology,  Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the 50 people shaping business in 2018 and the International Religious Freedom secretariat as a Peacebuilder.

Senior Fellow, Director of the Family First Technology Initiative

Michael Toscano co-founded FFTN and is the director of the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, which sponsors FFTN's work. His research focuses on how social and technological change affects family formation, child development, and community vitality.  

Heritage Foundation

Emma Waters is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on family, biotechnology, and reproductive medicine. She is a co-author of “A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right” statement at First Things. Her first book, Lead Like Jael, will be released with Skyhorse Publishing in 2026.

Founder & CEO, FaithWise

Rev. Dr. Marian Edmonds-Allen works at the intersection of faith, values, and technology, co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Secretariat's Corporate Council, advises the AI & Spirituality Initiative at the Neurospirituality Lab at Harvard Medical School, and is a Senior advisor at American Security Foundation's Moral Compass initaitive.