Erin Zimmer Strenio, Executive Editor of The Conversationalist, has dedicated her career to civic tech and journalism rooted in empathy. As director of Vote.gov, she led the federal voter information site to a Service to the Citizen Award for accessibility and equity in voter registration. She previously served at 18F, improving delivery of SNAP, CHIP, and other public programs, and earlier worked as managing editor at the James Beard Award-winning site Serious Eats. At Shorenstein, Zimmer Strenio will focus on how solutions-oriented journalism can foster civic engagement and public trust, organizing workshops and collaborative events that reimagine media as a platform for agency, compassion, and collective action.
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.
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