Harnessing AI and innovation in the fight to end gun violence.
About Us
In a country where gun violence claims more than 100 lives every day—and its causes, solutions, and even basic data about incidents remain elusive—we have to use every available tool to address this public health epidemic, including new technology. Enter Everytown Labs.
An initiative of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, Everytown Labs surfaces and accelerates innovative technology to address gun violence, developing digital products and delivering new insights to support our gun safety mission.
It is an exciting project at an exciting moment in tech. Recent developments in artificial intelligence have made enormous, intractable problems suddenly more manageable—and we are here to ensure that gun violence prevention benefits from these advances. Our goal at Everytown Labs is to leverage cutting-edge technologies, including AI, to radically change our understanding of gun violence and the solutions to it.
Welcome to the future of gun safety.
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Our Team
Nick Suplina – SVP, Law & Policy, Everytown for Gun Safety
Nick brings 20 years of legal and policy experience in the public and private sectors to the role of Senior Vice President for Law and Policy of Everytown for Gun Safety. In this role, he oversees the organizational strategy for federal, state, and local policy, community safety initiatives, research, and investigations. Nick has a proven track record creating products and strategies at the intersection of technology and public policy. As a Senior Advisor and Special Counsel to the New York State Attorney General, he oversaw agency use of data analytics and machine learning to support and generate investigations, including analysis of real estate registry data to reveal abuses in the housing market, online ads to locate sex trafficking operations, and crime gun tracing data to identify discrete illegal gun trafficking patterns. At Everytown, building on his Attorney General tracing work, Nick led the development of the Gun Trafficking Intelligence Portal, which uses algorithms to identify potential straw purchasers and problematic gun dealers using crime gun data, currently deployed by the State of Illinois.
Sarah Burd-Sharps – Senior Director, Research, Everytown for Gun Safety
Sarah leads Everytown’s team producing original research for greater understanding of the nature of gun violence and the most effective solutions for preventing it. Sarah has co-authored four peer-reviewed journal articles on gun safety, her research has been cited in a Supreme Court dissent, and she has testified before Congress on the economic cost of gun violence. Prior to joining Everytown, Sarah was co-director of Measure of America at the Social Science Research Council, where she published books and reports on poverty and inequality, gender equity and domestic violence, and youth disconnection. She is the co-author of two volumes of The Measure of America (Columbia University Press, 2008 and NYU Press, 2010) and was cited in a 2015 Supreme Court amicus brief. Sarah is on the board of the Fund for a Safer Future.
Sriraman Madhavan – Senior Director, Everytown Labs
Sriraman Madhavan runs our Everytown Labs initiative, bringing a decade of experience in data science, machine learning, and software engineering to the challenge of gun violence prevention. Sriraman has worked at a number of companies to help build AI tools in the healthcare space, and has published several research papers on pediatric firearm fatalities and gun policies in the US. He received his master’s degree from Stanford University in Statistics, with a concentration in Machine Learning.
Andrew Edelman – Research Manager, Everytown for Gun Safety
Andrew Edelman is a Research Manager at Everytown for Gun Safety. His work includes researching city gun violence prevention strategies and supporting legislative advocacy through policy research. Previously, he worked on the policy and legislation team at the Office of the New York State Attorney General and at the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice for New York City. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Amherst College and a master’s of public administration in public policy analysis from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
