Portfolio — Rishonda Thomas

Portfolio

Selected work.

AI policy research, applied analysis, and the technology programs that taught me how institutions actually change.

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US AI Policy Portal

An interactive tracker of state-level AI legislation, built end-to-end solo: research, taxonomy design, frontend code, ongoing updates. Compare states side-by-side, filter by approach and year of effect, export the underlying data. Built for the people who actually have to navigate this — researchers, compliance leads, journalists.

states with comprehensive frameworks

75%

of provisions are harm-reactive

2026

the implementation wave ahead

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Research

Global AI Governance Knowledge Commons

A working synthesis of how major jurisdictions — EU, UK, Singapore, Japan, China — are approaching AI governance, and what the comparative picture reveals about regulatory convergence and divergence.

In progress

Operational context

I've also led $175M+ technology programs and product adoption initiatives across federal and commercial environments — context that informs how I think about operationalizing AI governance inside large institutions.

$175M Technology Implementation

Federal program · 1.9M stakeholders · Congressional timeline

Technology Product Adoption

Platform serving 80K+ stakeholders · cross-functional delivery