Credentialed Creators

Ashley Silfra

Credentialing Lead

Ashley Silfra serves the Creator Accountability Network as it’s Credentialing Program lead. She has spent the last 15 years being deeply involved in progressive community organizing and non-profit organization management, as well as using her strong expertise in organizational change, conflict coaching, and product/service lifecycle management to transform individual and organizational clients. As a coach, consultant, and human, Ashley brings an unapologetically humanist approach to work and life. In her free time, she does complex home renovations, performs with a band, takes dance classes, and plays with her adorable dwarf hamsters.

Board President

Kat lives in Northern Virginia and works for the federal government. She is the founder of Have We Met? whose signature event Dinner with Strangers, brings together eight strangers for a two-hour dinner full of engaging conversation. In the off chance she is not working, she enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, and writing about nothing. Oh, she also has four feral children.

Amanda Tharp

Board Member (At Large)

Amanda Tharp started her time with CAN as the Credentialing Lead and was invited to join the board after her time in that role. She is an archivist and records management professional from Ohio. She has a master’s degree in library and information sciences. Amanda has a passion for research and helping others with their information needs. When she isn’t digging through dusty old files, Amanda enjoys reading and baking.

Sarah Tulien

Executive Director
Board Member (At Large)

Board Member (At Large)

Alisha is a mother to two boys and seasoned project manager. She studied athletic medicine and played volleyball in college. After graduation, she joined the Army as a Combat Medic where she assisted the Army and Air Force with routine health and combat readiness. After she separated, she launched a business creating and selling custom cakes so she could stay at home with her boys while they were young. Once the youngest entered school, she began her current career path in the financial services industry. She currently implements the US product offering for an international financial technology company.

Alisha has been involved with online and in-person atheist spaces since 2012. She has volunteered for many events, served as moderator for multiple spaces, and worked for a few of our community’s popular podcasts.

Alisha is also a domestic violence survivor both as a child and an adult. In her personal time, she helps step people out of abusive relationships and connects them with resources in their area. She wants to bring that experience to this organization by educating creators about abuse before they cause harm, promoting positive and enthusiastic consent as the standard, establishing codes of conduct in social and parasocial spaces, providing resources and support to victims, and creating meaningful consequences for creators that victimize our community members.

Board Treasurer

Sam P. Buck is a neuroscientist from the Boston area. He’s formally trained in both engineering and psychiatric neuroscience, having spent many years as an engineering project manager and scientific laboratory coordinator in addition to nonprofit board service. He came to CAN as a longstanding member of close-knit fan communities, and is particularly interested in using nonprofit models to provide valuable, high quality services with no conflicting incentives. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, sailing, and the company of his amazing friends.

People and Operations Director

Ashlyn Wolff

Investigations

Chris Mruzik

Aaron Rabinowitz is an ethicist with 10+ years experience teaching about human flourishing. He has a BA in philosophy from the University of Virginia, a Masters in philosophy from Colorado State University, and is currently working on a PhD in education at the Rutgers Graduate school of Education. In his dissertation he advocates for Luckpilling, a new approach to teaching about luck that helps people accept the taboo truth that everything is luck, all the way down. He argues that internalizing this taboo truth is essential to the progressive social justice agenda and has profound implications at the personal and societal level. When he’s not trying to luckpill the world, Aaron’s other interests include AI ethics, antisemitic conspiracism, values centered community organizing, and tai chi. Aaron also hosts two philosophy podcasts, Embrace the Void, and Philosophers in Space with co-host Callie Wright. His work aims to make philosophy accessible and useful to everyone.