Ryan has worked with startups looking to enter new markets, venture capital funds seeking to understand the impact of policy on their investments, and established companies of all sizes facing regulatory threats to their business operations.

With a passion for emerging technologies changing the market and our daily lives, she has a personal interest in the growth of the neurotechnology industry. Neurodata has the potential to address the most systemic problems facing individuals and society today, but it is also vulnerable to abuse. Ryan is currently working with a group of similarly minded individuals to ensure the subsector’s growth in a manner that enables individual data empowerment and human flourishing.

Prior to Canary, Ryan served as:  Principal at the Franklin Square Group, a bipartisan boutique firm (Washington DC.) specializing in technology issues; Director of Government Relations to the Intel Corporation; Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Counsel for the Full Committee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under the Leadership of Senators Hatch (R-UT) and Spector (PA) respectively.  

She is a member of the Virginia State Bar and holds a J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law and B.A. in Philosophy and Communication Studies from Vanderbilt University.

When not thinking about tech policy or volunteering, Ryan is likely traveling having visited 43 (and counting) countries and 5 continents to date.