Anjana Rajan
CTO / Polaris
Anjana is the Chief Technology Officer of Polaris, an NGO that leading a data-driven social justice movement to fight sex and labor trafficking. She serves on the organization’s executive team and leads the security, engineering, and technology departments. Anjana is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur whose expertise is applying cryptography to human rights and national security issues.
Previously, she was the CTO of Callisto, a nonprofit that builds technology to combat sexual assault. Before that, she worked at Palantir Technologies, where she built and deployed products in the Middle East. She was a Knight Scholar at Cornell University’s Engineering School and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Operations Research and Information Engineering. Recently, Anjana was a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute, where she worked on privacy-preserving methods to prevent mass gun violence caused by white supremacist extremists.