Berkman Klein Center Announces Incoming 2022-2023 Fellows

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce incoming fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. They are an exceptional group who will cover topics ranging from human rights and the impact of migration technologies, to security researcher protection and pandemic-era knowledge access.

"We are thrilled to welcome this wonderful class of fellows to BKC as we invigorate the Center as a physical meeting point for impact and engagement," said Sue Hendrickson, BKC Executive Director. "Their amazingly diverse expertise will help drive new inquiry, build connections, and foster consequential conversations about the most vexing and inspiring challenges in our field."

“For more than twenty years, a Berkman Klein fellowship has spurred its recipients to ask big, concrete questions about what technology is doing to us, and whether and how it should be shaped,” said BKC co-founder Jonathan Zittrain. “BKC offers a lively community designed around unexpected, productive encounters with people also working in the public interest, often from very different perspectives and methods."

Incoming fellows are joined by faculty associates and affiliates with experience working in companies, organizations, and academic institutions around the globe. These community members form and strengthen the bonds of the growing BKC network of people who bring a broad range of backgrounds, expertise, and perspectives.

Rebecca Tabasky, BKC Director of Community, noted, “This moment calls upon us to be in solidarity with one another as we work: to illuminate and make different paths visible, to help clear the way and ease the road in one another’s paths, and to find the paths that can and do and must converge. It is our privilege to host the fellows as they take steps together through the coming year.”

The BKC fellowship program aims to create a protocol, a culture, a spirit that puts the emphasis on being open, being kind, being good listeners, being engaged, and being willing to learn from one another.

Joining the community as 2022-2023 Berkman Klein fellows on September 1, 2022:

Marta Basystiuk is a legal expert who has worked extensively to support justice and public sector reforms in Ukraine, including the areas of rule of law, democracy, human rights, and anti-corruption. As a fellow, Marta will study the benefits of digital transformation, and explore innovative ways to improve equitable learning and human capital development that are essential for Ukraine's long-term success.

Juliana Castro is a designer and the Founder of Cita Press, an award-winning open-access feminist library and publishing studio. Juliana is interested in the impact design and storytelling have on online civic discourse and disinformation. She's the author of the essay collection Papel sensible (Espasa, 2022).

Elizabeth Dubois is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa where she runs the Pol Comm Tech Lab. At the Berkman Klein Center she will focus on how political actors strategically interact with artificial intelligence and automated systems to share political information and ideas. Elizabeth also hosts the Wonks and War Rooms podcast, where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy.

Ashley Lee is a scholar of tech, politics, and social movements. Her research examines the implications of technology design and use for democracy and social equality, focusing on youth and marginalized communities. At the Berkman Klein Center, she will explore AI and the future of work, while completing a book manuscript on youth digital activism and surveillance.

Faith Majekolagbe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and a scholar in intellectual property (IP) law. Her scholarship in IP law focuses on the effects of international copyright law and policy on access to knowledge, human development, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As a Berkman Klein fellow, she will focus on how copyright laws and policies can be adapted to support quality education for all in pandemic and post-pandemic learning environments.

Florian Martin-Bariteau is the University Research Chair in Technology and Society and an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. A technologist and creative turned legal scholar, his research focuses on technology law, ethics, and policy, with a special interest in blockchain, AI, quantum technologies, and cybersecurity. As a fellow, he will research whistleblowers and public interest security researcher protection to promote responsible AI and other sociotechnical systems.

Nema Milaninia is an international criminal law expert. He previously worked as a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He is currently a senior counsel at the Alphabet Regulatory Response, Investigations and Strategy group and separately writes and researches on the intersection between accountability and technology.

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and the Migration and Technology Monitor, which funds community grounded projects on border tech. Petra is working on her first book Artificial Borders: AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the development of the digitally-networked environment. A diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, technologists, policy experts, and advocates, we seek to tackle the most important challenges of the digital age while keeping focus on tangible real-world impact in the public interest. Our faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates conduct research, build tools and platforms, educate others, form bridges and facilitate dialogue across and among diverse communities. More information at cyber.harvard.edu.