Sam Hinds is a writer, critic, creative director, coach, and strategist who translates complex insights to global audiences and decision-makers.
At Harvard University, Sam served the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as Director of Communications. Before Harvard, Sam was Director of Creative Strategy at Data & Society Research Institute, where for five years she led editorial content, creative ideation, external affairs, media strategy, and cultural partnerships. There, she launched foundational scholarly work on disinformation and directed immersive off-the-record expert spaces to tackle harms from algorithmic bias and networked incitement.
Sam also directed publicity for large-scale political art installations at the New York City provocateur nonprofit Creative Time, covered film and intellectual history as Editor-at-Large of The New Inquiry, and ran global post-genocide accountability projects for the International Center for Transitional Justice. Sam has spoken at Harvard Law School, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, Duke University, New York University, and several major art, media, and technology conferences in Western Europe and the US.
