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Catherine Ray has extensive experience in research, engineering, and mathematics, having served as a 2014 Thiel Fellow at The Thiel Foundation since June 2014. Catherine's research roles include visiting researcher positions at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the Santa Fe Institute in early 2015. Previous experience includes roles as a Mouse Vocalization Specialist and Audio Processing Engineer at Mousera, an Assistive Tech Independent Researcher at Assistive Tech R&D, and a Software Engineering Intern at Cloudera, where Catherine developed a Hadoop-based downloads tracking system. Academic accomplishments include conducting research at George Mason University and George Washington University's Robotics Lab, alongside a teaching assistantship at Mary Baldwin College. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Science in Computational Science/Physics from George Mason University and previously attended Mary Baldwin University.
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Freedom is always under siege. Around the world, authoritarian regimes deprive millions of people of basic economic and social rights. Even elected governments can burden their citizens with labyrinthine bureaucracies and complex, unnecessary laws. And while some regimes are obviously worse than others, they all have apologists who obscure these conditions by twisting the relationship between freedom and human fulfillment.