Elana is the Economic Opportunity Director at the Federal Communications Commission.

She was recently a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team's Technology, Innovation and Government Reform policy group, a summer associate with McKinsey and a researcher for Google.org on media tools that facilitate access to information for economic, educational and civic opportunity.

While completing a joint MBA and MPA at Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government, Elana was President of the Social Enterprise Club and conducted a field study for the White House Office of Social Innovation.

Prior to graduate school, she was part of the start-up team of Campus Progress, the youth division of Center for American Progress, a nationally recognized think tank and founding editor of their web magazine.

As a freelance journalist on political and cultural topics, Elana's work has appeared in The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, NPR's All Things Considered, New York Times, The Nation, Bust, Nylon and Time Out New York amongst others.

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