Abigail Olvera

Abi Olvera is Research Director at the Golden Gate Institute for AI, founder of DC Abundance, and an Emergent Ventures grantee. Her research explores how institutions can overcome bottlenecks that slow innovation and progress. A former U.S. diplomat with over a decade of service, she now focuses on the intersection of governance and technology. She serves as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ disruptive technologies editorial fellow and on boards advancing beneficial AI and AI-enabled reasoning tools. She writes Positive Sum, a Substack exploring the systems and institutions that enable abundance and progress, from AI and longevity to housing and everyday innovation