About ISOC-DC

The Greater Washington D.C. Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) is a membership organization that seeks to further the mission of the Internet Society (ISOC) in the District-Maryland-Northern Virginia metropolitan area by serving as a hub for education and discussion concerning the important issues confronting the future of the Internet.

Over the past several years the Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) has gained a global reputation for excellence in programming. For the past three years ISOC-DC has proudly served as the Secretariat and organizational home of the IGF-USA (Internet Governance Forum for the United States). The annual conferences during these years are widely recognized as the most successful in the IGF-USA’s history.

The Internet Policy Forum (IPF) is an initiative undertaken by ISOC-DC that seeks to leverage our chapter’s many successes and further develop the infrastructure needed to build a sustainable and scalable forum that can serve as a hub for discourse concerning the key issues confronting the Internet.

ISOC-DC Leadership




Executive Director


Dustin Phillips





Assistant Director


Ethan Wham
Full Stack Web Developer



Governing Council


Beth Bacon
Policy Manager, Public Interest Registry



Stephen Miller
Global Internet, Cyber, and Telecom Policy Strategy



John More
Principle at DeepSoundWave LLC



Michael Nelson
Public Policy at Cloudflare



Carolyn Nguyen
Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft



Aram Sinnreich
Associate Professor at American University



David Snead
General Council, cPanel and Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition



David Snead
General Council, cPanel and Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition



David Snead
General Council, cPanel and Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition



David Snead
General Council, cPanel and Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition

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