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https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanlisa
Lisa Roman DOD
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https://sfi.usc.edu/content/lisa-roman
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Lisa Roman DOD
https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Lisa-Roman/-881660030
https://foreignpolicy.com/events/fp-women-peace-security-tech-digital-development/
https://www.protocol.com/policy/bumble-policy
Lisa Roman arrived at Twitter just in time for the techlash.
It was 2018, and Roman had spent her career in government, working for the Department of Defense in Baghdad and coordinating U.S. policy related to Syria both for the State Department and the White House National Security Council.
But the pace of things on Twitter's public policy team was chaotic even for her. "A lot of our day-to-day jobs, as you can imagine in the public policy shop, were starting to become extremely reactionary," Roman said. "You would sort of wake up and your agenda was set for you, because you woke up to an email from one of the campaigns or a letter from Congress."
By the fall of 2020, as the frenetic pace in tech was peaking in the run-up to the U.S. election, Roman was looking for a job that would allow her to set the agenda, not the other way around. And she found that job in a somewhat unlikely place: the dating app Bumble.
Around that time, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd was looking to start an internal policy team of her own, but one with a decidedly different set of stated goals than other tech policy teams have. "I said, 'Well, what is it exactly that you're looking for? Are you worried about this set of conversations resulting in a law that will impact the business?'" Roman remembers asking Wolfe Herd. "She's like, 'No. I need someone to come and help make the internet safer for women.'"
Roman joined Bumble as its vice president of global public policy last October, and has since begun building a small but experienced female-led team with an unusual mission, as far as tech policy shops go. While most tech teams in D.C. are working overtime to stop legislation that could hurt tech, Bumble's team is also actively pushing legislation across the country to stop behavior that hurts women — both online and off.
In September, Roman hired Payton Iheme, who spent five years on Facebook's public policy team, to head up Bumble's work in North America and Latin America. Like Roman, Iheme had an unconventional path to the tech industry, serving in the U.S. Army from the age of 17 and later working in the White House. "I was very keen on global problems, and I was drawn to tech being able to help, at scale, solve some of those," Iheme said.
But as relationships soured between the government and the tech industry, Iheme said, "I felt that I was not able to make those types of impact." Especially after George Floyd's murder and the Capitol riot — during which Iheme was deployed as an active member of the National Guard — Iheme said she started thinking harder about "where you want to put your energy." She decided she could make a bigger difference focusing on a more narrow set of issues.