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Grant Nelson is a Co-Founder of MEANS, writing nearly all of the code in the early days while also attending law school at GWU. He's an occasional guest speaker at General Assembly, covering the ethics and legality of web crawling. In his free time he's been developing charityapi.org, an API to check if a charity is actually tax-exempt. He loves Ruby/Rails and Elixir/Phoenix, and is now a data and privacy tech attorney here in DC. As a judge he prioritizes problem solving that is explicit and simple.

Liz is the Lead Developer at MEANS Database. Previously, she was a freelance developer and consultant working primarily on CMS such as WordPress and Squarespace. She is passionate about user centered development and using development to change the world!

Betsy Haibel is a founding partner at Cohere, an engineering coaching agency. She writes both fiction and nonfiction in English and a variety of programming languages, and co-organizes Learn Ruby in DC. As a judge, Betsy prioritizes solutions which have empathy for users' context, & which fail fast and defer to human judgement in adverse circumstances.