Laura Anne Edwards is a strategist, open data activist and public speaker on innovation. She’s a NASA Datanaut where she’s co-leading a project called Mapping the NASA Dataverse and was the 2016 runner up for the Aaron Swartz Fellowship for her Data Oasis platform; a meta index of open data resources. Edwards is one of the first ever TED Residents and also serves on the Technology and Innovation Subcommittee for Public Private Partnerships at the US State Department.