Cofounder Michael Morisy is MuckRock’s Chief Executive Officer. He’s led hundreds of trainings on transparency, investigative journalism and civic engagement. He also helped improve federal policy through two terms of service on the federal FOIA Advisory Committee. He was previously a digital technology editor for the Boston Globe and a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He also has served on the boards of the American Society of Access Professionals and the National Freedom of Information Coalition. He can be reached at michael@muckrock.com.

Chief Operating Officer Amanda Hickman joined MuckRock in 2022. She was previously Managing Director and then Interim Executive Director of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio, where she lead the organization's work on rights and fair practice. She has a long history working at the intersection of media, technology and civic participation. She directed BuzzFeed’s Open Lab for Journalism, Technology, and the Arts and has taught reporting, data analysis and visualization, and audience engagement at graduate journalism programs at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. She can be reached at amanda@muckrock.com.

Cofounder Mitchell Kotler is the site's lead developer and site architect. He is a veteran of multiple technology companies and startups, including AMD, Achronix, and eProvenance. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2007, and earned a Masters Degree from Cornell in 2008. You can contact him at mitch@muckrock.com / PGP Key.

Senior Developer Chris Amico is a journalist and developer based in Boston. At MuckRock, he works to maintain the DocumentCloud platform. He was previously a senior developer in USA TODAY Network’s storytelling studio and the interactive editor for Frontline on PBS. He was a cofounder and lead developer of Homicide Watch DC. A long time ago, wrote for small newspapers in California and still sometimes tells stories about it. He can be reached at chris@muckrock.com.

Developer Experience Engineer Sanjin I. is dedicated to building and supporting our developer community while enhancing the end-user and developer experience across MuckRock's offerings. His work includes writing documentation, drafting release notes, handling developer communications, developing new add-ons and improving our APIs. He graduated cum laude in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Contact him at sanjin@muckrock.com.

Head of Product Allan Lasser has over a decade of experience in digital publishing and software design. At MuckRock, he works across departments to provide design direction, manage product roadmaps, listen to user feedback, and identify new opportunities to help MuckRock users work more effectively. Lasser was co-founder and CTO of Massive Science, an online community and training program for thousands of scientists to share narrative stories about their work with lay audiences. He graduated from Boston University with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in American Studies. Contact him at allan@muckrock.com.

Samantha Sunne is MuckRock's Interim Editor. She helps lead MuckRock’s editing, publishing and community outreach around the 2024 US election. She is a freelance journalist and trainer based in New Orleans and the recipient of several national grants and awards for investigative journalism. When not reporting, she teaches at conferences, universities and newsrooms around the world. Her first book, coauthored with trainer Mike Reilley, “Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting,” was an Amazon bestseller in 2023. She can be reached at samantha@muckrock.com.

Dillon Bergin is MuckRock's data reporter. He uses data and public records to power investigative reporting with partner newsrooms. He's also the director of the Data Liberation Project and hosts FOIAFriday, a monthly community podcast about all things public records. Dillon was a member of the Documenting COVID-19 team, a project funded by MuckRock and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Before that, he was a Report for America corps member with Searchlight New Mexico and a Fulbright Germany Journalism Fellow. He can be reached at dillon@muckrock.com

Kelly Kauffman is MuckRock’s engagement journalist, focusing on newsletters, community callouts and reporting that is supported by public involvement. Previously, she worked at the campaign finance organization OpenSecrets as their outreach and digital media manager, where she helped shed light on the role of money in U.S. politics. She can be reached at kelly@muckrock.com.

Customer Support Manager Miranda Carruth has worked in User Operations and Customer Support at Helm Services (a subsidiary of Stripe) and Uber where she focused on implementing policies and procedures that improved efficiency in order to provide a better experience for customers. Miranda takes a data-driven approach to deliver results and has a track record of exceeding benchmarks and KPIs. She graduated in 2016 from the College of Charleston.

Operations and Support Specialist Adrien Salzberg assists with customer support inquiries and processing public records requests. He graduated from Emerson College in 2019 and previously worked as a freelance reporter. He enjoys developing interesting FOIA projects and collecting bird facts.

Board member Victoria Baranetsky is a media attorney and First Amendment expert. Currently, she serves as general counsel at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she counsels reporters on newsgathering, libel, privacy, subpoenas, provides counsel to the Board, and advises on all other corporate matters. Previously, she clerked on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and worked at The New York Times, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Wikimedia Foundation. She teaches the First Amendment and Media Law at Berkeley Law school and her writing on the subject has been published in The Los Angeles Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, CNN and other outlets.

MuckRock Board President Scott Klein is Chief Product Officer at THE CITY, the nonprofit news outlet in New York City, and was a co-founder in 2009 of DocumentCloud. At THE CITY he is responsible for overall product strategy and oversees the teams at the intersection of journalism and technology, including product management, engineering, interactive news and data reporting. Before THE CITY, he helped start ProPublica and founded its award-winning news applications and data teams.

Board member Jenny 8. Lee is co-founder and CEO of Plympton, a San Francisco-based literary studio that innovates in digital publishing. A former New York Times reporter, Jenny is a producer of “The Search for General Tso,” a documentary that premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, and the author of the New York Times-bestselling book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (Twelve, 2008). She is the founder of Emojicon and MisinfoCon.

Board Secretary Freddy Martinez is a policy analyst with Open the Government. Prior to joining OTG, Freddy was founder and executive director of Lucy Parsons Labs, a police accountability non-profit. He is an activist, security engineer and technologist. He was previously a Mozilla/Ford Foundation Open Web Fellow at the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Board Treasurer Jim Neff is the deputy managing editor of Philadelphia Media Network. He has written five nonfiction books, including his most recent, Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy vs. Jimmy Hoffa. Previously he was investigations editor at The Seattle Times, where he oversaw the series “Methadone and the Politics of Pain," winner of the 2012 Pulitzer winner for investigative reporting.

Board Vice President Mago Torres is an investigative journalist that works at the intersection of research and data. She is the data editor at The Examination, non-profit news organization that covers global public health. She has worked on award-winning long-form investigations and developed programs supporting collaborations, data, and investigative stories in the US and internationally. She has worked for Open News, the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP), the Data-Driven Reporting Project (DDRP) at Northwestern University, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Board member Rebecca Williams is an artist, lawyer, and writer. She currently works as the Associate Director of Privacy & Data Governance for the ACLU. Previously Rebecca has researched how data and technology reconstruct power in society at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Sunlight Foundation, the White House, and more. Rebecca holds a B.A. in Communication & Film Studies from the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. from Western New England Law School. She has won numerous legal tech awards, including the American Bar Association's first 10 Women to Watch in Legal Tech.