[storf45]

from the article, the paragraph right before it explained how she got on the board:

"In 2019, she spent nine months in Beijing studying its AI ecosystem. When she returned, Toner helped establish a research organization at Georgetown University, called the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where she continues to work."

[PeterisP]

It's interesting that on her LinkedIn profile she instead states that in Beijing she spent those 9 months in "intensive Mandarin Chinese language training" at a Chinese language program in Tsinghua University, not studying its AI ecosystem.

[Tryk]

Credential inflation is how all these Nepo babies seemingly outpace anyone else.