Leadership
Nancy Gibbs, Lombard Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy
617-496-1615 | nancy_gibbs@hks.harvard.edu
Assistant: Chelsey Crabbe
Laura Manley, Executive Director
laura_manley@hks.harvard.edu
Administration
Chelsey Crabbe, Executive Coordinator
chelsey_crabbe@hks.harvard.edu
Klara Kabadian, Assistant, and Finance and Research Appointment Coordinator, to Prof. Jenn Lerner
Sarah Melendez, Faculty Assistant to Profs. Julia Minson and Todd Rogers
Kevin Wren, Faculty Assistant to Richard Parker and Prof. Tom Patterson
kevin_wren@hks.harvard.edu
Communications & Events
Liz Schwartz, Director of Communications and Events
617-495-2233| liz_schwartz@hks.harvard.edu
Lindsay Underwood, Communications Manager
lindsayunderwood@hks.harvard.edu
Finance
Nicole Dillon, Director of Finance and Administration
nicole_dillon@hks.harvard.edu
Susan Ocitti Mahoney, Manager, Finance and Administration
617-495-8345 | susan_ocitti@hks.harvard.edu
Kuwardeep Sabharwal, Finance and Administration Coordinator
kuwardeep_sabharwal@hks.harvard.edu
Projects & Research
Dr. Joan Donovan, Shorenstein Center Research Director
Behavioral Decision Science
Maja Niksic, Assistant Director, Behavioral Insights Group
Irene Lee, Research Fellow, Lerner Lab
Andrew Epifanio, Research Project Manager, Lerner Lab
The Journalist’s Resource
Clark Merrefield, Senior Editor, Economics, Journalist’s Resource
Naseem Miller, Senior Editor, Health, Journalist’s Resource
Carmen Nobel, Program Director, Journalist’s Resource
Denise-Marie Ordway, Managing Editor, Journalist’s Resource
HKS Misinformation Review
Dr. Natascha Chtena, Research Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the HKS Misinformation Review
achtena@hks.harvard.edu
Public Interest Tech Lab
Dr. Latanya Sweeney, Director
Joshua Shank, Lab Manager
Sybil Gelin, Project Manager, fbarchive
Josh Visnaw, Project Manager, VoteFlare
Emine Dogan, DevOps Engineer
Emily Ott, Tech Studies Coordinator
Technology and Social Change Project
Dr. Joan Donovan, Project Director
Brandi Collins-Dexter, Associate Research Director
Emily Dreyfuss, Senior Managing Editor
Dr. Rob Faris, Senior Researcher
Brian Friedberg, Senior Researcher
Alexei Sisulu Abrahams, PhD, Data Scientist
Megan O’Neil, TaSC Project Administrator
Lauren Faz, Project Assistant
Project leadership listed above. For full team list, including fellows, visit the TaSC Project page.
Faculty
Resident Faculty are based within the Shorenstein Center and contribute to the rich intellectual life of the center, as well as producing research and teaching courses at the Kennedy School.
Matthew Baum, Kalb Professor of Global Communication
Nancy Gibbs, Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy
Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy
Jennifer Lerner, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management
Julia Minson, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow
Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
Todd Rogers, Professor of Public Policy
Latanya Sweeney, Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology
James Waldo, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, SEAS
Affiliated Faculty sit across the Kennedy School and Harvard University. Their research and teaching align with and contribute to the Shorenstein Center’s mission.
Lauren Brodsky, Lecturer in Public Policy
Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law
Justin de Beneditcis-Kessner, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Lecturer in International Security
Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations
Khalil G. Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy
Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Maya Sen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Jeff Seglin, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Director of HKS Communications Program
Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School
