These expert panelists chose the top 10 winners in Navigators
As vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Dempsey is a thought leader on Internet privacy, national security, and government surveillance. He oversees the Digital Due Process coalition, a group working to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Head of the Ammori Group, a public-policy advisory law firm, Ammori is also a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation and a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Sohn is the president and cofounder of Public Knowledge, a public-interest group focused on open Internet activism and copyright issues. She is also a senior adjunct fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado.
An author and political scientist, West is vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, where he founded the Center for Technology Innovation.
Crowell is the head of global public policy at Twitter and founder of strategic-consulting firm Crowell Strategies. He was previously senior counselor to Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski.