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At the heart of Data & Society is our network. Building a strong and connected network is vital to advancing our field: it is only together that we can realize a future where technological development is guided by equity and human dignity. We nurture long-term, reciprocal relationships with our network members and place a high value on continuously learning from one another.
Advisors
Coming from backgrounds including public policy and law, AI governance, communications, academia, and the arts, the breadth and depth of our advisors’ expertise reflects Data & Society’s strategic priorities and ambitions. Advisors offer advice and feedback on issues including institutional development, equity and inclusion, donor relations, policy engagement, and strategy, and help facilitate other collaborations.
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Amanda Ballantyne
Senior Fellow, New America
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Danah Boyd
Professor of Communication, Cornell University; Founder, Data & Society Research Institute
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Catherine Bracy
CEO and Founder, TechEquity Collaborative
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Meredith Broussard
Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University
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Anil Dash
VP of Developer Experience, Fastly
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Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department
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Leslie Gross
Grant Philanthropic Advisors, Partner
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Alexander “amac” Macgillivray
Formerly Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy US Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Biden-Harris administration
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Vidushi Marda
Co-executive Director, REAL ML
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Deirdre Mulligan
Professor and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley
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Gina Neff
Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge
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Alondra Nelson
Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
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Mimi Onuoha
Cofounder, A People’s Guide to Tech
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Desmond Upton Patton
PIK University Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice and Annenberg School for Communication
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Latoya Peterson
Expert Narrative Designer, Elsewhere Entertainment
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Andrew Rasiej
Cofounder, Civic Hall
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Micah Sifry
Editor and Publisher, The Connector
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Executive Director, Equality Labs
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Baratunde Thurston
Executive Producer and Host, Life With Machines & How to Citizen with Baratunde
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Janet A. Vertesi
Associate Professor, Princeton University Department of Psychology
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Ethan Zuckerman
Director of the Digital Public Infrastructure Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Affiliates
Data & Society affiliates make up a cohort of talented researchers, thinkers, and advocates who actively collaborate with the organization, whether by producing reports, policy briefs, and workshops; participating in programming; or otherwise contributing their insights to our community.
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Sareeta Amrute
Associate Professor of Strategic Design at Parsons, The New School
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Annette Bernhardt
Director of Technology and Work Program, UC Berkeley Labor Center
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Omer Bilgin
AI Governance Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute
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Borhane Blili-Hamelin
Officer, AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance
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Dan Bouk
Professor of History, Colgate University
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Jenna Burrell
Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
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Lindsey Cameron
Assistant Professor, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
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Robyn Caplan
Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
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Anita Say Chan
Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign School of Information
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Kiara Childs
Independent Scholar
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Ángela Cristina
Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University
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Gabriella Coleman
Professor, Harvard University Department of Anthropology
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Jessie Daniels
Professor, Department of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY
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Kinjal Dave
PhD Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
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Leila Doty
Senior Privacy and AI Analyst, City of San José
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Upol Ehsan
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
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Madeleine Clare Elish
Head of Evaluations, Responsible Development and Innovation, Google DeepMind
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Ryan Ellis
Associate Professor, Northeastern University
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Kimberly Fernandes
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
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Kadija Ferryman
Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Flota de Chancey
Assistive Technology Coordinator, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, New York Public Library
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Sorelle Friedler
Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science, Haverford College
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Ryan Gerety
Director, Athena Coalition
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Michele Gilman
Co-Director of the Center on Applied Feminism and Director of the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, University of Baltimore
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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper
Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Film, St. Lawrence University
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Zehra Hashmi
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Mar Hicks
Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
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Noel Hidalgo
Co-Founder and Executive Director, BetaNYC
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Wan Heng Hu
Embedded Ethics Fellow, Stanford HAI
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Harry Hudome
PhD Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
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Natalie Kerby
Researcher, AI Forensics
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Tamara Kneese
Senior Research Scientist, Partnership on AI
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Amanda Lenhart
Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
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Karen Levy
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, Cornell University
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Gideon Lichfield
Co-Founder, BlueDot Media
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Minsu Longiaru
Senior Staff Attorney, Powerswitch Action
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María Madden
Former Director of Health & Data, Data & Society
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Surya Mattu
Senior Engineer for Data Journalism and Investigations, Bloomberg News
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Jasmine McNealy
Attorney, Tenured Professor, University of Florida
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Jacob Metcalf
Founder and COO, Eloso Intelligence
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Joan Mukogosi
Futurist-In-Residence, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Wilneida Negrón
Director of Worker Innovation and Impact, Coworker
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Mutale Nkonde
Chief Executive Officer, AI for the People
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Miliaku Nwabueze
Just Tech Fellow, Social Science Research Council
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William Partin
Senior Policy Lead, Youtube
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Samir Passi
Advanced Software Developer and Researcher, Kforce
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Marie-Therese Png
PhD candidate, Oxford Internet Institute
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Bogdana Rakova
Senior Data Scientist Global Responsible AI team, DLA Piper
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Jess Reia
Assistant Professor of Data Science, Co-Lead of Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, University of Virginia
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Gabrielle Rejouis
Senior Fellow, Georgetown Workers Rights Institute
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Alex Rosenblat
Chief Data Officer, McGill University
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Dibyadyuti Roy
Associate Professor in Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities, University of Leeds
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Melinda Sebastian
Independent Scholar
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Andrew Selbst
Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Law
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Murali Shanmugavelan
Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute
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Sonja Solomon
Assistant Professor; McGill University Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy
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Yuan Stevens
Senior Manager, External Relations at the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada (CAFC)
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Emnet Tafesse
Community Program Manager, Coalition for Independent Tech Researchers (CITR)
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Julia Ticona
Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
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Frank Torres
Fellow, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human
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Francesca Tripodi
Principal Investigator at the Center for Information Technology and Public Life, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Tricia Wang
CEO, Advanced AI Society
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Xiaowei R. Wang
Professoriate Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, School of Communication
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Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Safe and Responsible AI
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Moira Weigel
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Northeastern University
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Zoë West
Senior Researcher, The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR
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David Widder
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
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Hannah Zeavin
Assistant Professor of the History of Science, UC Berkeley
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Elena Zeide
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Sara Ziff
Founder and Executive Director, Model Alliance
Colaboración para el Liderazgo en Tecnología Pública
The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a peer learning community of researchers, practitioners and government leaders, anchored by academic institutions and guided by an advisory group with representatives from leading scholars and policy experts and led by Data & Society. The PTLC advisory committee supports the mission and strategy of the PTLC by offering strategic advice, ideas, and feedback, identifying and supporting outreach to new members, and hosting events that advance their work and the mission of the PTLC.
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Alex Bolton
Executive Director at Tech Policy Lab, University of Washington School of Law
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Elizabeth Eagen
Subdirector del Laboratorio de Ciudadanía y Tecnología de la Universidad de Cornell.
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Cyd Harrell
Chief Digital Services Officer, City and County of San Francisco
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Colin Maclay
Professor and Executive Director, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
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Cassandra Madison
Directora Ejecutiva del Centro para el Futuro Cívico
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Erie Meyer
Investigador principal del Centro de Derecho y Economía de la Facultad de Derecho de Columbia.
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Stephanie Nguyen
Investigador principal del Centro de Derecho y Economía de la Facultad de Derecho de Columbia.
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Emily Tavoulareas
Faculty Affiliate, Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University; Managing Chair, Georgetown Tech & Society
Past Fellows
Anchoring a field of researchers and practitioners that’s growing in size and influence, our nine cohorts of fellows have pursued academic research, written code, created art, brought together communities of activists and practice, run workshops and hosted convenings, worked closely with Data & Society’s inhouse research teams, and so much more. As we assess how to best serve our network going forward, the fellows program is currently on pause.
Alumni
Data & Society staff have put their experiences to work in a range of roles and organizations focused on technology governance and policy, labor, social justice, industry, and more. Others have pursued advanced degrees and entered academia. Below are just a few.
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Kinjal Dave
PhD Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
Previously:
Research Analyst, Data & Society’s Disinformation Action Lab
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Nazelie Doghramadjian
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information
Previously:
Network Engagement Associate, Data & Society
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Madeleine Clare Elish
Head of Evaluations, Responsible Development and Innovation, Google DeepMind
Previously:
Program Director,
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Kadija Ferryman
Core Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Previously:
Postdoctoral Scholar, Data & Society’s Health and Data program
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Cristina López G.
Senior Analyst, Graphika
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Senior Research Analyst,
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Zachary Gold
Senior Director of Cable, Broadband, and Special Projects, New York City Office of Technology & Innovation
Previously:
Researcher, Data & Society’s Health and Data Program
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Andrew Selbst
Assistant Professor, UCLA Law
Previously:
Postdoctoral Scholar, Data & Society
Join Our Network
Interested in joining Data & Society’s network? Use this form to connect with our network engagement team and share your expertise.