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Kim Albrecht

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

Doaa Abu-Elyounes

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

Ifeoma Ajunwa

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 Albert

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

Virgilio Almeida

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

Ana Andrijevic

Ana Andrijevic is a PhD Candidate at the University of Geneva as well as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School.

Gabe Armstrong-Scott

Gabe Armstrong-Scott is a Senior Advisor with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of New Zealand.

Dave Arney

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

​​​​​​​Chinmayi Arun is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Law (Spring '24) at Yale Law School. Her research…

Amar Ashar

Amar Ashar is a senior researcher and Head of Algorithmic Policy at Spotify. His work focuses on algorithmic impact & responsibility, where he…

Pablo Baquero

Pablo Marcello Baquero is Assistant Professor at HEC Paris and a Chairholder at the Hi! Paris Center on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence…

Solon Barocas

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 Basl

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

Christopher Bavitz

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

Yochai Benkler

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…

Mike Bennett

Michael G Bennett is the Director of Educational Programs and Director of the Policy and Regulation group at the Institute for Experiential…

Francine Berman

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

Fernando Bermejo

Fernando is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center, the research director of Media Cloud, and the executive director of Media Ecosystems…

Maja Bogataj Jančič

Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and executive director of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Doreen Bogdan-Martin is a strategic leader in the ICT sector with 30 years’ high-level experience in international and inter-governmental relations,…

Beatriz Botero Arcila

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

Lionel Brossi

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

Afua Bruce

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

Ryan Budish

Ryan Budish is a Privacy and Public Policy Manager at Meta. He helps to develop innovative approaches to a range of data protection practices, with a…

Ana Castillo

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

Bao Kham Chau

Bao Kham Chau is an Intellectual Property attorney, a Cofounder/Director at Cornell Law Xenophobia Meter Project, and a Visiting Fellow at…

Huili Chen

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

Kasia Chmielinski

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

Rumman Chowdhury

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

Wendy Chun

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…

A. Feder Cooper

A. Feder Cooper is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, studying how to make more reliable and trustworthy conclusions when…

Sandra Cortesi

Sandra Cortesi is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and the Director of Youth and Media. She is responsible for coordinating the Youth and Media’s…

Sasha Costanza-Chock

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

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…

Nighat Dad

Nighat Dad is an accomplished digital policy geek & dynamic advocate in the realm of digital rights, serving as the visionary founder and Executive…

Primavera De Filippi

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

Juan Carlos De Martin is a Berkman Klein faculty associate and the faculty co-founder (in 2006) and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet &…

Karthik Dinakar

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

Tomás Dodds

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

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

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

Finale Doshi-Velez

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

Elizabeth Dubois

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

Ben Eidelson

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

Niva Elkin-Koren

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…

Samson Esayas

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

Jad Esber

Jad is the co-founder of Koodos, a New York-based web3 company.

Kathleen Esfahany

Kathleen N. Esfahany is a Ph.D. student at the Harvard Program in Neuroscience and a researcher at the metaLAB (at) Harvard.

Nadah Feteih

Nadah Feteih is an Employee Fellow at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media. She holds B.S and M.S degrees from UC San Diego in Computer Science…

Jessica Fjeld

Jessica Fjeld is Senior Advisor at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and the Managing…

Camille Francois

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

Johnathan Frankle

Jonathan Frankle is Chief Scientist at MosaicML and Chief Scientist (Neural Networks) at Databricks.

Diana Freed

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

Juan Ortiz Freuler

I explore tech geopolitics, antitrust, and the influence of funding on research and advocacy. My research focuses on examining how various actors…

Dilrukshi Gamage

Dilrukshi Gamage is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Sasahara Lab, Department of Innovation Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Her research…

Cecilia Garraffo

Cecilia is the founding director of AstroAI.

Urs Gasser

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

Aaron Gluck-Thaler

Aaron Gluck-Thaler is a PhD Candidate at the Department of the History of Science, an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society,…

Mary Gray

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

Ben Green

Ben Green is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He has a courtesy appointment at the Gerald R. Ford School…

Armando Guio Español

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

Shira Gur-Arieh is a doctoral student at Harvard Law School.

Woodrow Hartzog

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…

Alexa Hasse

Alexa is a Ph.D. student at Tufts' Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development.

Dan Ho

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…

Seiji Isotani

Seiji Isotani is a visiting professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a professor of computer science and learning…

Malavika Jayaram

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

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

Bulelani Jili

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

Samantha-Kaye Johnston

Samantha-Kaye Johnston is a Researcher and Supernumerary Fellow at Jesus College, both at The University of Oxford, and a member of the UNESCO…

Rachel Kalmar

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

Margot Kaminski

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

Anandana Kapur

Dr Anandana Kapur is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Danil Kerimi

Danil Kerimi is an experienced technology and public relations executive with a track record of delivering impactful projects in corporate strategy,…

Mehtab Khan

Mehtab Khan's scholarship focuses on the intersections between IP, data governance, and AI ethics.

Jenny Korn

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

Mason Kortz

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

Vivek Krishnamurthy

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

Crystal Lee

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

Ashley Lee

Ashley Lee is a scholar of tech, politics, and social movements. Her research examines the implications of technology design and use for democracy…

Larry Lessig

Larry Lessig works on law and technology.

Maroussia Lévesque

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

Harry Lewis

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

Andres Lombana-Bermudez

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

Jenn Louie

Jenn Louie is the founder of the Moral Innovation Lab based on her research initiated at Harvard Divinity School.

Eduardo Magrani

Doctor of Laws (Ph.D / Juris Doctor) on Data Governance and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Post Doctor at the Munich Center for Technology &…

Micaela Mantegna

Known as the 'Abogamer', Micaela stands as an international authority on digital ethics, XR policy, and the intertwining of generative AI with…

William Marks

William Marks is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a JD candidate at Harvard Law School.

Florian Martin-Bariteau

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

Sahar Massachi

Sahar researches the political economy of tech giants, disruptions to information ecosystems, and design principles for better social media.

María Isabel Mejía

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

James Mickens

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

Martha Minow

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

Petra Molnar

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders.

Phillip Müller

Philipp is interested in understanding and shaping sovereign and sustainable digital transformation of government and society.

Victor Munoz

Víctor Muñoz is an expert in Telecommunications, who brings nearly 25 years of experience in the BPO and IT sectors to his work. He is founder and…

Brian Michael Murphy

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

Daniel Mwesigwa

Daniel has worked in several roles including as an ICT policy analyst and researcher at CIPESA, in Kampala, Uganda, as a research communicator in the…

Tomo Nagashima

Tomo Nagashima is a learning scientist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher who works closely with education stakeholders to support human…

Adam Nagy

Adam Nagy is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a JD candidate at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Arvind Narayanan

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

Sarah Newman

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

Russell Newman

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

Aileen Nielsen

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

David O'Brien

David O’Brien is an 2023-2024 Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, whose scholarship focuses on the…

Ngozi Okidegbe

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

David Opderbeck

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

Yong Jin Park

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

Desmond Patton

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

Jonnie Penn

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

Jon Penney

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…

Najarian Peters

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…

Ivan Petrella

Ivan Petrella is Director of Culture, Humanities and Creative Industries at Fundación Bunge y Born and chairs the Committee for Ethics and AI of the…

Kathy Pham

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

Dasha Pruss

Dasha Pruss is an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow in the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard University.

Aprajita Rana

Aprajita is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center and is a legal and policy strategist working in intersection of law, technology, and global…

Elissa Redmiles

Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. She was previously a Faculty Member at the Max Planck…

Nagla Rizk

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

Dario Rodighiero

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

César Rodríguez-Garavito

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

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…

Hilary Ross

Hilary Ross is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center. Currently, she is a technology policy program consultant.

Nathan Sanders

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

Holli Sargeant

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

Elaine Sedenberg

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

Maitreya Shah

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

Stuart Shieber

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…

Bill Shribman

Bill Shribman is the Senior Executive Producer and Director of Digital Partnerships at GBH and has 30 years’ experience making digital media for kids…

Alicia Solow-Niederman

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

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

Brandon Sullivan

Brandon Sullivan is a Ph.D. in Political Science student at Boston University.

Elisabeth Sylvan

Dr. Elisabeth (“Lis") Sylvan is the Senior Director of Strategy and Programming at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard…

Zahra Takhshid

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…

Amanda Third

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

Zeynep Tufekci

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

Maria Lucia Villalba

María Lucía is an economist with experience in the public sector. She has led the implementation of different economic and social development…

Kerstin Vokinger

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

Sandra Wachter

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…

Anne Washington

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

Moira Weigel

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

David Weinberger

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

Apryl A. Williams

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

Christo Wilson

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

Alexandra Wood

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

Crystal Yang

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

Annie Zhang

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

Leila Zia

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

Tom Zick

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

Jonathan Zittrain

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