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Marshall Van Alstyne is the Questrom Chair of Information Systems at Boston University where he studies the economics of information.

Doctor Doaa Abu-Elyounes is a Program Specialist for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at UNESCO, and she is leading the implementation of the UNESCO…

Lori Adgate is the Financial Administrator, Institutes.

Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning tenured law professor and author of the highly acclaimed book, The Quantified Worker,…

Kendra is a public interest technology lawyer with a special interest in computer security law and freedom of expression. They served as a clinical…

Kim Albrecht visualizes cultural, technological, and scientific forms of knowledge. His diagrams unfold and question the structures of representation…

Virgilio Almeida is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is also Faculty Associate at the…

Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and Master in Science from the University of Oxford.

Joanne Armitage is a digital media practitioner, researcher and artist. She is Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Leeds, Faculty…

Gabe Armstrong-Scott is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where she supports the work of Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda…

David Arney works to improve patient safety by advancing medical device interoperability. As the Lead Engineer of the Medical Device Plug and Play…

Chinmayi Arun is a research scholar, lecturer and the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Lisa Austin is a Professor and Chair in Law and Technology at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and recently served as an Associate Director…

Margo A. Bagley, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.

Joe B. Bak-Coleman is a collective behavior scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior in Konstanz, Germany.

Oren Bar-Gill’s scholarship focuses on the law and economics of contracts and contracting.

Louis Barclay is the developer behind Unfollow Everything, a tool to delete your Facebook News Feed.

Solon Barocas is a Principal Researcher in the New York City lab of Microsoft Research, where he is a member of the Fairness, Accountability,…

John is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University and an associate director at the Northeastern Ethics Institute where he leads AI…

Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education at Harvard Law School. He is…

Jonathan Bellack is a veteran Internet technology product manager. His 30 years of experience started with dot-com era startups in New York City,…

Susan Benesch founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project, to study speech that can inspire violence - and to find ways to prevent this, without…

Yochai Benkler is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Harvard Law and a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman…

Francine Berman is the Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer…

Fernando is the research director of Media Cloud (mediacloud.org), and leads the Media Ecosystems Analysis Group (mediaecosystems.org).His research…

Armelle Bernard is the Program Administrator at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic...

Elettra is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center and an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University...

Doreen Bogdan-Martin took office as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023.

Serena Booth is an incoming Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Brown University.

Beatriz Botero Arcila is an Assistant Professor of law in the digital information economy at Sciences Po Law School and Faculty Associate at the…

Ibtissam Bouachrine is a Professor at Smith College and a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard…

Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH, conducts research and field work focused on health systems and institutions in conflict affected states

Anu Bradford is a leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital…

Samuel Brasil is an Associate Professor at the National Judicial School and currently serves as an Associate Justice at Espirito Santo State Supreme…

Lauren Bridges researches the social and environmental impacts of digital infrastructures.

Cruz Brito is the Operations Administrator, Institutes.

Ben served most recently as Head of Public Policy for Stability AI. In this role, Ben worked to promote a transparent and competitive AI ecosystem.

Lionel Brossi is Associate Professor and Director of International Relations at the Faculty of Communication and Image of the University of Chile …

AFUA BRUCE is a leading public interest technologist who has spent her career working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society. She has…

Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management and sociology (by courtesy) at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is a…

Alejandra Caraballo is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic.

Anthony Cascione is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where he is involved with Professor Charles Nesson’s Nymity…

Ana Castillo is a researcher at the School of Communication Sciences at the International University of Catalonia, Spain. She co-leads the Artificial…

Juliana Castro Varon is a writer, designer, creative director and the Founder of Cita Press, an award-winning feminist open-access publishing and…

George Chalhoub is an Assistant Professor at UCL and an Associate Member at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Cyber Security from the…

Anupam Chander is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University.The Author of The Electronic Silk Road (Yale…

Vicky Charisi is a research scientist with a focus on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on children’s learning and development.

I am an Intellectual Property (IP) Attorney and a former Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about regulating the development and deployment…

Huili Chen's research focuses on a sociocultural examination of human-AI interaction, harmonizing perspectives from design, psychology, computing,…

Yiling Chen is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Daniel L. Chen is an Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the Director of Research at the French…

Joanne Cheung is a Lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Kasia Chmielinski (they/them) is the Co-Founder of the Data Nutrition Project, an initiative that builds tools to mitigate bias in artificial…

Tracy Chou is the founder and CEO of Block Party, a tech startup building consumer tools for online safety and privacy.

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic…

Dr. Aymar Jean Christian is the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern and Director of the Media and Data…

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the Digital…

Myojung Chung is an assistant professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University.

Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies, and…

Professor Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, she…

A. Feder Cooper is a co-founder of the GenLaw Center, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research

Sandra Cortesi is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a Senior Research and Teaching…

Francisco Marmolejo Cossío is an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College, and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's…

Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they/ella/elle) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power,…

Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and…

Jim Cowie is a serial entrepreneur and data scientist, and has been studying Internet measurement and data storytelling for more than 20 years. His…

Associate Professor David Craig is a communication, media, and platform scholar at USC Annenberg where he has taught graduate courses for over…

Jack Cushman is the director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, a software and design lab at the Harvard Law School Library bringing library…

Primavera De Filippi is a Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein…

Juan Carlos De Martin is full professor of computer engineering at the Politecnico of Turin (Italy). He is Berkman Klein faculty associate and the…

Sebastian Diaz is the Berkman Klein Center's Director of Technology. He guides the Berkman Klein Center's IT enterprise through a landscape of ever…

Chris DiBona is a world authority on developer ecosystems and open source software. Notably he ran Google's open source office for nearly 19 years.

Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

Tomás Dodds is an Assistant Professor in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for…

Judith Donath is a writer, designer and artist whose work focuses on the co-evolution of technology and society. She has published numerous articles…

Jackie Dorward is a member of the Data, Strategy and Security group at Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City.

Finale Doshi-Velez is a Herchel Smith Professor in Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She completed…

Evelyn Douek is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and University Research Chair in…

Brenda is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis.

Professor Beth Altringer Eagle runs the joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design and has over…

Upol Ehsan makes AI systems explainable and responsible so that people who aren't at the table do not end up on the menu.

Benjamin Eidelson is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Shelby’s interest in the Berkman Klein Center’s work flourished after completing the center’s CopyrightX course in 2019. She has since been…

Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. She is the academic director of the Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center…

Dr. Samson Esayas, an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for…

Rob Eschmann is a writer, educator, filmmaker, and scholar from Chicago. Dr. Eschmann’s first book, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in…

Mark Esposito is Professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult Int’l Business School, where he directs the Futures Impact Lab as…

Jeannette Estruth is currently finishing her first book manuscript, Think Different: Silicon Valley Activism and the Making of Modern American…

Dr. Jabari Evans is an Assistant Professor of Race and Media at the University of South Carolina in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication …

Nancy is currently clerking on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School after obtaining two M.S. degrees in…

Paul Fehlinger advances responsible innovation at the intersection of policy, new technologies, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.

Nadah Feteih is a previous Employee Fellow at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM). She holds B.S and M.S degrees from UC San Diego in…

Mailyn Fidler is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. Fidler is a scholar of cybersecurity…

Christian Fieseler, a faculty associate, is professor for communication management at BI Norwegian Business School and a director of the Nordic…

Chris Finck is a Systems Admin and Geek member working to keep Berkman Klein Center servers and technology projects in check.

Brigitte is a geopolitical and misinformation researcher who focuses on the distribution and impact of misinformation across social media platforms…

William Fisher is a Berkman Klein Center Director. He is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and he…

Jessica Fjeld is the Managing Director of the De|Center and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center.

Camille Francois specializes in understanding and mitigating harms emerging from digital technologies.

Diana Freed is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Information Science and a 2024 incoming Assistant Professor at Brown…

Nathan is the founder and director of Guardian Project, an award-winning, open-source, mobile security collaborative with millions of users and…

Mayo Fuster Morell is faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she has collaborated with…

Margaret is a passionate finance leader with over 20 years of experience in building and scaling tech companies. 

Mariel García-Montes is a sociotechnical scholar of media and IT, especially as they relate to the public interest. Her main topics of interest are…

Antoinette (Toni) Gardner is the Director of Operations, Institutes.

Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where he serves as Dean of the…

Marissa Gerchick is a data scientist and researcher focused on the intersection of technology and civil rights, especially related to machine…

Noah Giansiracusa, PhD in math from Brown University, is an associate professor of mathematics at Bentley University and a Visiting Scholar at the…

Eric Gilbert is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Sharad Goel is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Matt Goerzen is a PhD student studying the History of Science at Harvard University.

Valerie Gomez (she/hers) is a Program Manager engaged with the Educational Initiatives at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard…

I am pleased to announce my return as a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center, following my tenure as a 2022-2023 Harvard Visiting Scholar…

Patrick Goulart Soares is BKC’s Community Administrator. Prior to BKC Patrick has worked in a number of roles in public education and in event design…

Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…

Dr. Kishonna L. Gray is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Ben Green is an assistant professor in the University of Michigan School of Information and an assistant professor (by courtesy) in the Gerald R…

Ben Grosser creates interactive experiences, machines, and systems that examine the cultural, social, and political effects of software. Recent…

Armando Guio Español is a lawyer, and graduated from Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) in 2014 with an Honours Degree. He holds a Masters…

Shira Gur-Arieh is a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. Her dissertation examines questions that relate to legitimacy in machine-learning…

Jeffrey Hall is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. He studies how to elevate positive online experiences through…

Houman Harouni is a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Woodrow Hartzog is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. His research focuses on law and policy issues related to privacy, digital…

Sean Harvey is a Berkman Fellow focused on improving digital discourse with artificial intelligence.

Samer Hassan (he/they) is a Spanish/Lebanese activist and researcher, currently Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center, and Associate…

Sue is Berkman Klein’s first Global Technology Governance Fellow, former Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and a Lecturer at Harvard…

Jerome is an assistant research professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a research affiliate at the Center for Law…

Jennifer Hickey comes to ASML with a passion for public interest technology and years of experience as a software engineer, civil rights attorney,…

Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at peer production…

Dr. Sameer Hinduja is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University, Co-Director of the Cyberbullying…

Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Professor of Political Science, and Senior…

Adam is a Project Manager at the Berkman Klein Center, where he manages the Lumen project along with various other Center initiatives.

David Hornik is Founding Partner at Lobby Capital, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm. He is also a lawyer, educator, art collector, and…

Professor Hsieh is Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration and for 2021-2022, Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at…

Mari oversees BKC's Network and Faculty Projects pillar. This includes the executive education and student programming, the BKC Fellowship program…

Seiji Isotani is a prominent Brazilian scientist renowned for his contributions to artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and the gamification…

Malavika is the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit internet and society research think tank based out of Hong…

Dariusz Jemielniak is a Wikipedian, Full Professor of Management at Kozminski University, and an entrepreneur (having established the largest online…

Bulelani Jili is a Meta Research Ph.D. fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT Development, Africa-China relations,…

Professor John is a behavioral scientist who studies how people make decisions, and the wisdom or error of those decisions. In her primary line of…

Fay Johnson is a seasoned product management leader with over two decades of experience driving innovation in consumer technology. Her work focuses…

Chelsea Baltierra Johnson is a Principal Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab. An experienced software engineer and social impact organizer,…

Sanjay Jolly is the executive director of the Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School (LPE@HLS) and a doctoral candidate at the…

Maria José (Maia) Ravalli is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Joshua Joseph is an artificial intelligence researcher and practitioner.

Rebecca Kagan is an AI Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, working at the Department of Commerce Office of Policy and Strategic Planning on AI…

Jonas Kaiser is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Assistant Professor at Suffolk University, and member of the…

Rachel Kalmar is a data scientist, community organizer, and world record holder for number of wearable sensors worn continuously.

Margot Kaminski is a Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons. She…

Sayash Kapoor is a Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow in the University Center for Human Values and a computer science Ph.D. candidate at…

Darius is a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab working on open social media standards with a focus on ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

Ryan Y. Kellett was most recently vice president of audience at Axios Media since 2021. He will study the economic and cultural incentives of social…

Yannis is an International Expert in Emerging Technologies Governance, specializing in AI, Cybersecurity, and Web3, and serves as an Affiliated…

Jay is the team’s newly-minted Executive Assistant, working in tripartite under the Berkman Klein Center’s Managing Director, the Executive Director…

Anna Keune is Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Design Technologies at the School of Social Sciences and…

Mehtab Khan is an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Cleveland State University College of Law, where she teaches Intellectual…

Samuel Klein is an engineer and archivist, currently working on automating knowledge synthesis and review.

Kate Klonick is an Associate Professor at St. John's University Law School, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Information…

Jenny Korn is a feminist activist of color for social justice and scholar of race and gender in mass media, online communication, and artificial…

Mason Kortz is a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, where he supervises students working at the intersection of law,…

Vasilis Kostakis is a Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech, Estonia, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's…

Tara Kripowicz is the Managing Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Vivek Krishnamurthy is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy…

Gretchen Krueger is an AI policy researcher focused on increasing accountability in AI development.

Jason Kwon is the Chief Strategy Officer at OpenAI.

I am an early career media sociologist with a PhD from Cambridge University. I am currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen in…

Crystal Lee is an Assistant Professor in Computational Media and Design at MIT with a joint appointment in the Schwarzman College of Computing and…

Rosemary is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, joining the Internet Robustness team, building awareness and facilitating global …

Alberto Leon is a senior software engineer specializing in decentralized identity architecture and mobile technologies, with extensive contributions…

Greg Leppert is the Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative, a…

Larry Lessig works on law and technology.

Maroussia Lévesque is a researcher and attorney working on the governance of artificial intelligence.

Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, is the…

Kevin Liao is a joint J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and MIT in the Department of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Baihan Lin is a tenure-track professor in AI, psychiatry, and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he directs the Bytes…

Nick Lindseth is a first-year law student at Yale Law School.

Michelle is Berkman Klein Center’s Finance & Operations Administrator. Prior to BKC, Michelle worked in nonprofit operations in Boston and…

Ava Liu is a joint fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, the Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School, and the Center for Labor and a…

Andres Lombana-Bermudez is a researcher, designer, and digital strategist working at the intersection of digital technology, youth, citizenship, and…

Jenn Louie is the founder of the Moral Innovation Lab, based on her research initiated at Harvard Divinity School and worked as a Product Manager at…

Dr. Asaf Lubin is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He is additionally, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman…

Nathaniel Lubin has spent his career focused on digital strategy, technology, and politics.

Alexander 'amac' Macgillivray is a lawyer & coder.

Caio Vieira Machado is a lawyer and social scientist focused on the intersection of law, technology, and policy.

Colin M. Maclay currently serves as Executive Director for the Annenberg Innovation Lab and Professor of Communication at USC's Annenberg School for…

Doctor of Laws (Ph.D / Juris Doctor) on Data Governance and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Faith Majekolagbe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in Canada. Her research interest is in the areas of…

David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences…

Meg is a product manager at the Applied Social Media Lab, focusing on building public interest technology that helps make information available and…

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and the University…

Kalie Mayberry serves as the Project Manager for the Applied Social Media Lab.

Madeline McGee is a Project Coordinator for Research at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She supports the Center’s Youth and Media …

Chelsea joined BKC in August 2021. She supports projects for the Strategy and Programming team, along with helping to manage the Center’s day-to-day…

Andrew McLaughlin is Chief Operating Officer at SandboxAQ.

Jasmine McNealy is an attorney, critical public interest technologist, and social scientist who studies emerging media & technology with a view…

María Isabel Mejía is a pioneer with over four decades of leadership and innovation.

James Mickens is an associate professor of computer science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the performance, security, and robustness…

Stefania Milan is Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and a research associate within the Chair in AI & democracy at…

Brendan A. Miller is a Principal Engineer with the Applied Social Media Laboratory. He researches and develops innovative protocols, architectures…

Gilad Mills is a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the intersection of private law and technology, aiming to develop…

Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses include civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international…

Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on machine learning (ML) and ethics-informed AI development in tech.

Andras Molnar is an Affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and serves as a Policy Analyst at an…

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders. She co-runs the Refugee…

Dylan Moses is a law clerk specializing at the intersection of emerging technologies and legal frameworks surrounding online speech, privacy,…

Víctor Muñoz is an Industrial Engineer, MBA, and expert in Digital Transformation.

Jon Murley is the Center’s Administrative Director

Brian Michael Murphy is a media archaeologist and writer who work cuts across disciplines and genres.

Tomo Nagashima is a learning scientist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher who works closely with education stakeholders (e.g., teachers,…

Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.

David Nemer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Anthropology, and the Director…

Charles R. Nesson is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and…

Max Neu is a serious-games producer, educator and researcher, working on the intersection of media education and political education.

Dr. Russell Newman is an Associate Professor in Digital Media and Culture at Emerson College’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and…

Sarah Newman is the Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard.

Aileen Nielsen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches privacy law and torts.

Nana is an accomplished lawyer and policy consultant with over a decade of expertise, applying her skills to policy matters in numerous sectors…

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his…

June Okal is the Senior Manager, Global Stakeholder Engagement, East and Southern Africa for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers …

Ruth L. Okediji is a renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property…

Ngozi Okidegbe is a Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data…

David W. Opderbeck is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and Institute for Privacy Protection at…

Aviv Ovadya (aviv.me) works at the intersection of AI, platforms, democracy, and deliberation. He is a Research Fellow at newDemocracy; an affiliate…

Julie Owono is the executive Director of Internet Sans Frontieres, and the founder of the Content Policy & Society Lab, a company first incubated at…

Yong Jin Park is Professor, School of Communications, at Howard University.

Desmond Upton Patton, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary fusion of social work, communications, and data science, is the Brian and Randi Schwartz…

Dr. Jonnie Penn, FRSA, is an educator, broadcaster, and public speaker who theorizes the social implications of information technologies. Penn is an…

Jon is a legal scholar and social scientist based at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard…

Gordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Cornell University.

Najarian R. Peters joined the KU Law faculty in summer 2020. She teaches torts as well as two new privacy courses she created: Privacy Law and The…

Iván Petrella is the Director of Cultural Innovation at Fundación Bunge y Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and founder who has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, people…

Leah is an expert in digital privacy law & digital life for kids & teens & families, as well as a leader in developing and operationalizing…

Trisha Prabhu is the 23-year-old inventor and Founder and CEO of ReThink™, a patented technology that stops cyberbullying.

Dr. Dasha Pruss is an assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at George Mason University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein…

Kathy Qian is a Senior Software Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab. Her engineering work is focused on creating functional and thoughtfully…

David Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.

Pariroo Rattan is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and is completing a secondary field in…

Alan Raul is Senior Counsel and founder of Sidley Austin LLP’s global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and a member of the firm’s top ranked Crisis…

Felix Reda (he/they) is the Director of Developer Policy at GitHub.

Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is the Clare Luce Boothe Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. She was previously a Faculty Member…

Ben Reininga is the former head of editorial at Snapchat.

Ben Reis is Director of the Predictive Medicine Group and a member of the Faculty of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

Paul Resnick is the Michael D. Cohen Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Director of the Center for Social…

Manon was a Postdoctoral Employee Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for the 2023-2024 academic year. She graduated from MIT in 2023 with a PhD in…

Paola Ricaurte is an associate professor at the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a faculty associate at the…

Neil Richards is one of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, information law, and freedom of expression. He writes, teaches, and lectures…

Johnny is a Senior Software Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab working on making social media discourse safer and more democratic while…

Allissa V. Richardson, Ph.D. is an associate professor of journalism at USC Annenberg, specializing in how African Americans use mobile and social…

James W Riley is an economic sociologist.

Rebecca is the Executive Director, Institutes, leading the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and the Applied Social Media Lab within the Berkman…

Nagla Rizk is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the American University in…

Zoe is a Principal Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab. Her work focuses on preserving news media, facilitating platform transparency, and…

Dario is an Assistant Professor of Sciences and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, serving the multidisciplinary Campus Fryslân…

César Rodríguez Garavito is an international human rights and environmental law scholar and practitioner. He is a Professor of Clinical Law and Chair…

Magda Romanska is a Professor of Theatre at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and Principal at metaLAB (at) Harvard. She is also the Chair of the…

Deb Roy is professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT where he directs the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC).

Robert Saliba is a former Google Engineering Director with extensive experience leading technical teams in social media, video platforms, and…

Nathan Sanders is a data scientist focused on creating open technology to help vulnerable communities and all stakeholders participate in the…

Holli Sargeant is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge.

Roslyn M. Satchel is a womanist scholar activist in the Pan-African Studies tradition who examines human rights and civic engagement at the…

Jeffrey is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and one of the faculty co-directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist.

R. Trebor Scholz is a researcher, author, and advocate for fair and sustainable digital labor practices. He is a professor and the founding director…

Lara (she/her) is a Product Manager for the Applied Social Media Lab’s discourse work. She is working on tools that address barriers to discourse…

Sarah Schwettmann is a neuroscientist and machine learning researcher based at MIT.

Nick Seaver is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts University.

Elaine Sedenberg works for the Strategic Advisor to the President, Global Affairs at Meta, and covers issues across Policy, Communications, and…

Andrew Selbst is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.

Margo I. Seltzer is the Cheriton Family Chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia

Nishant Shah is an Associate Professor of Global Media and the Director of the Digital Narratives Studio, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Maitreya Shah is a disabled lawyer and researcher. His work lies in the interstices of the ethics and governance of emerging technologies and…

Nadiyah Shaheed is eager to assist in her role as Center Coordinator in advancing Berkman Klein Center's mission of "advancing public interest at the…

Ganesh has over a decade of product management experience leading enterprise and consumer technology teams.

Aaron Shaw is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at Northwestern University, co-founder of the Community Data…

Stuart Shieber is the James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at…

Samantha Shireman is a passionate pragmatist who develops technology products that break through the digital walls that divide people into polarized…

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar is a Data Cowboy working on the intersection of machine learning and security.

Sarah Sobieraj is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Tufts University.

Alicia Solow-Niederman is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. Her research focuses on how to regulate…

Holger Spamann is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate finance.

Swati Srivastava is Associate Professor of Political Science and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. Previously, she was a Visiting…

Allison Stanger is Middlebury Distinguished Endowed Professor; Co-Director (with Danielle Allen), GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard…

Stefanie Stantcheva is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and founder of the Social Economics Lab.

Abbey Stemler is an Associate Professor and Weimer Faculty Fellow in the Department of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School…

Stubbs is a faculty member is the Departments of Physics and of Astronomy in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Peter Suber works for the growth of open access to research, within Harvard and beyond.

Brandon Sullivan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. His research interests center on the international…

Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral…

Sam Suri is a privacy and security researcher, focused on protecting the privacy of our everyday movements and actions, the security of our devices,…

Dr. Elisabeth Sylvan’s lifelong interest is in sociotechnical systems that support creativity, shared knowledge, and learning. Thematically, her work…

Rebecca Tabasky is honored to be part of the Berkman Klein Center core team as the Director of Community

Ezekiel Kwetchi Takam is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva and a former visiting PhD researcher at…

Zahra Takhshid joined the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as an Assistant Professor in July 2021. Before joining DU, she was the Lewis…

Professor Amanda Third (PhD) is Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture & Society, and Co-Director of the Young and Resilient…

Bridget Todd is the creator and host of iHeartRadios' award winning tech podcast "There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Christian Tom is a former member of the Biden White House, where he served as Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy.

Nora Trapp is an engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab, where she is deeply passionate about advancing privacy as a fundamental human right. With…

Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at the School of Information and Library Science with an…

Rebecca Tushnet is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Law School. Her work currently focuses on copyright, trademark, and…

Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany, and founder of the Center for…

Rory Van Loo's research focuses on how technological, market, and social shifts invite a rethinking of the regulatory framework for consumer-facing…

Fernanda Viégas is a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard with an affiliation at the Harvard Business School.

Salomé is an Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law School, where she teaches and writes about contracts, privacy, commercial surveillance and…

Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger is Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for…

Professor Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Law and Ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet…

j. Siguru Wahutu is an expert in the sociology of media, with an emphasis on genocide, mass violence, and ethnicity in sub-Saharan Africa.

Joseph B. Walther holds the Bertelsen Presidential Chair in Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a…

Anne L. Washington, PhD is a computer scientist and scholar of public interest technology. As Assistant Professor of Data Policy at NYU, she…

Jess Weaver is a nonprofit communicator, evaluator, and qualitative UX researcher with a focus on civic technology.

Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and serves on the Executive Committee of Women’s, Gender, and…

In books, articles, posts, classes, and talks, David Weinberger, Ph.D. explores the effect of the technology — especially AI and the Internet — on…

Jordi Weinstock is a Senior Advisor to Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media. He has served as a Lecturer at Harvard Law School in Internet …

Johanna Wild is an open source researcher at the intersection of investigative journalism and public interest technology. She works for Bellingcat,…

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Ellen Willemin is the Program Manager for Educational Initiatives at the Berkman Klein Center.

Apryl Williams is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media and the Digital Studies Institute at the…

Eraldine Williams-Shakespeare is an Educator and certified Instructional Designer and Evaluator with over 23 years of experience in education.

Dave Willner is a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, where he does research on how to use large language models to do text…

Christo Wilson is a Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a founding member of the Cybersecurity and…

Alexandra Wood is a Berkman Center fellow contributing to the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project.

Mark Wu is a Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His work focuses on international trade and international intellectual property…

Qunfang Wu is a technological activist researcher dedicated to empowering marginalized populations by integrating their voices into the understanding…

Angela Xiao Wu is an Associate Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU. Focusing on the infrastructures and politics of knowledge…

Maria Xynou is a digital rights researcher who has worked with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) since 2016, leading its strategic…

Crystal S. Yang is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Juncheng “Tony” Yang is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a researcher at the Data-Smart City Solutions at the…

Amanda (she/her) is the senior director of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Health Communication and a lecturer in its…

Annie Zhang is a media tech entrepreneur, journalist, and university lecturer in journalism based in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Leila Zia is the Director and Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Tom Zick has her PhD from UC Berkeley and researches the intersection of open data governance, AI ethics, and cybersecurity.

Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of…

Jonathan Zong is a computer scientist and visual artist who uses design to understand and re-imagine socio-technical systems.

Ethan Zuckerman is associate professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of…

There’s a new boss in town: Friday is the Special Assistant to the Director of Community.