Maria Milosh is a data scientist and researcher working at the intersection of civic technology, public policy, and democratic innovation. She holds an MSc in Computational Analysis and Public Policy from the University of Chicago, where she also worked as a researcher at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, studying governance in fragile contexts. Later she was a data scientist for the City of New York and the World Bank.Maria is active in the international civic tech community, contributing to projects on deliberative democracy, algorithmic accountability, and digital participation. She has organized educational programs and mentorship initiatives for emerging policy professionals in the Russian diaspora and regularly writes about the future of democratic innovation.