Candace Moix brings interdisciplinary expertise in safety, security, and technology governance to her work advancing responsible AI. Currently serving as Senior Advisor for AI at the US Department of Health and Human Services' Administration of Children and Families (through the TechCongress AI Safety Fellowship), Candace leads efforts to understand and manage AI risk in federal deployments, ensuring the public has access to resources necessary to promote safe AI deployment in human services domains.
Previously, she served as Technology Policy Advisor to Senator Peter Welch (through the TechCongress Senior Congressional Innovation Fellowship), supporting the technology portfolio and routinely advising on emerging technology issues. She introduced legislation and oversight letters that promoted standards creation, accountability frameworks, and ethical deployment of AI systems, with particular focus on weapons and targeting systems and minimizing negative impacts on vulnerable populations.
Candace's unique background combines deep technical expertise from her service as a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst at the National Security Agency with strategic leadership experience at organizations like Krebs Stamos Group, where she advised C-suite executives on cybersecurity strategy and risk management. Her academic and research background spans technology policy, cybersecurity, information operations, and online extremism analysis.
She has supported the security community through an adjunct role with the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism program, and as the Director of the Cyber Safety Initiative at Cybersecurity Nonprofit.
A former NSF Scholarship for Service recipient, Candace holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa's CyberCorps Program and an M.A. in Terrorism, Security, and Society from King's College London.
Previously, she served as Technology Policy Advisor to Senator Peter Welch (through the TechCongress Senior Congressional Innovation Fellowship), supporting the technology portfolio and routinely advising on emerging technology issues. She introduced legislation and oversight letters that promoted standards creation, accountability frameworks, and ethical deployment of AI systems, with particular focus on weapons and targeting systems and minimizing negative impacts on vulnerable populations.
Candace's unique background combines deep technical expertise from her service as a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst at the National Security Agency with strategic leadership experience at organizations like Krebs Stamos Group, where she advised C-suite executives on cybersecurity strategy and risk management. Her academic and research background spans technology policy, cybersecurity, information operations, and online extremism analysis.
She has supported the security community through an adjunct role with the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism program, and as the Director of the Cyber Safety Initiative at Cybersecurity Nonprofit.
A former NSF Scholarship for Service recipient, Candace holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa's CyberCorps Program and an M.A. in Terrorism, Security, and Society from King's College London.
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