Ann Ravel - Director of MapLight’s Digital Deception project, leads the development and promotion of policies that tackle online disinformation in politics. She is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.  She was appointed to the Federal Election Commission by President Obama, serving from 2013 to 2017, holding the roles of vice chair and chair. Ann previously chaired the California Fair Political Practices Commission, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, was appointed by President Obama as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice, and served as Santa Clara County Counsel for over a decade. In 2014, she was named a California Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine, and in 2007, the State Bar of California named her Public Attorney of the Year. Ann received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.