Sharanya Maddukuri

Sharanya Maddukuri (she/her) serves as the Director of Operations of the Paragon Policy Fellowship. She is a senior at George Mason University studying Government and International Politics with a minor in Ethics & AI. As a pre-law student, Sharanya has a background in exploring how AI can be leveraged to improve public services and the legal system.

Sharanya is currently the Programs Intern at TechCongress, a Congressional tech policy innovation fellowship, and leads the Sycamore Institute at Mason, the nation’s first undergraduate-led foreign policy think tank. Sharanya was a Paragon fellow in the fall of 2024, where she helped determine GenAI use cases and create educational materials for employees of the State of Georgia.

When she's not checking Slack, Sharanya loves to museum hop in Washington D.C. and rate sci-fi/dystopian TV shows!