Nancy Gibbs
Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center and Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Our Team
The Shorenstein Center’s community includes resident faculty, affiliated faculty, staff, and fellows.
Leadership
Laura Manley
Shorenstein Center Executive Director
Resident Faculty
Matthew Baum
Kalb Professor of Global Communication
Sharad Goel
Professor of Public Policy
Julia Minson
Professor of Public Policy
Thomas E. Patterson
Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
Todd Rogers
Weatherhead Professor of Public Policy
James Waldo
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, HKS; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, SEAS
Affiliated Faculty
Austin Bogues
News Desk Editor at USA Today and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Lauren Brodsky
Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
David Choffnes
Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University
Faculty Affiliate
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Professor of Global Digital Media, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Faculty Affiliate
Schuster Media & Technology Fellowship
Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Susan Crawford
John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Affiliate
Noah Feldman
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Chair, HLS
Faculty Affiliate
Archon Fung
Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
James Geary
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Jeremy Gilbert
Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern Medill
Faculty Affiliate
Amit Goldenberg
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, HBS
Faculty Affiliate
Juliette Kayyem
Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
Faculty Affiliate
David Lazer
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Faculty Affiliate
Thales Lelo
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Faculty Affiliate
Jennifer Lerner
Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management, HKS
Tarek Masoud
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Pippa Norris
Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Katherine Ognyanova
Professor, School of Comunication and Information, Rutgers University
Faculty Affiliate
Kathy Pham
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
David Rand
Erwin H. Schell Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Faculty Affiliate
Reece Peck
Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center
Faculty Affiliate
Ayushi Roy
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Jeffrey Seglin
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Emeritus
Maya Sen
Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Margaret Talev
Kramer Director of Syracuse University’s Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
David Weil
Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Chair in Human Development and Economics, School of Social Sciences and Social Policy, Brandeis University
Faculty Affiliate
John Wihbey
Associate Professor of Media Innovation and Journalism, Northeastern University
Faculty Affiliate
Jonathan Zittrain
George Bemis Professor of International Law, HLS
Faculty Affiliate
Center Staff
Max Boland
Program Coordinator, Student Media Initiative and Faculty Assistant to Nancy Gibbs and Latanya Sweeney
Nicole Dillon
Director of Finance and Administration
Lauren Faz
Senior Administrative Coordinator
Brian Friedberg
Senior Researcher
Jay Kemp
Research Community Lead
Caroline Kracunas
Events and Communications Manager
Emily Roseman
On Leave Fall/Winter 2026-7
Liz Schwartz
Director of Communications and Strategy
Alyssa Simmons
Senior Grants Manager
Deep Singh
Finance Associate
Natalie Solomon
Senior Executive Coordinator and Engagement Specialist
Lindsay Underwood
Assistant Director of Communications
Allison Wan
Senior Data Scientist
Program Staff
Julia Angwin
Director, Independent Media + Audience Project
Sara Archambault
Research Consultant, Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative
Anna Gibson
Research Associate, Independent Media + Audience Project
Betsy Hartman
Faculty Assistant & Project Coordinator, Lerner Lab
Evangelos Kassos
Engineer, Computational Policy Lab
Clark Merrefield
Senior Editor, The Journalist's Resource
Joe Nudell
Lead Engineer, Computational Policy Lab
Rina Palta
Senior Data Scientist, Independent Media + Audience Project
Enrique Pedráza-Botero
Director of Documentary and Visual Storytelling
Heather Sulejman
Managing Director of the Constructive Disagreement Project
Sydney Tanigawa
Project Coordinator, Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative
Magdalena Tarnawska Senel
Managing Editor, HKS Misinformation Review
Charlotte Tuminelli
Executive Director, Computational Policy Lab
Muskan Walia
Research Associate, Computational Policy Lab
Current Fellows
Greg M. Epstein
Humanist chaplain, Harvard and MIT
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Jessica Yellen
Founder, News Not Noise
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Wen-Ying "Sylvia" Chou, PhD, MPH
Health communication and public health scholar
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Memo Torres
Multimedia journalist; Host, Daily Memo
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Lars Adrian Giske
Head of AI and Editorial Tools, Polaris Media
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
David Craig
Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Tara Palmeri
Investigative journalist; Founder, The Red Letter; Host, The Tara Palmeri Show
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Kelly Jin
AI, data and public impact expert
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Anna Mancusi
Vice President of Product, CNN
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Odanga Madung
Data journalist and researcher; Co-founder and Managing Director, Odipo Dev
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Robin Kwong
Co-founder, Contemporary Narratives Lab; Director, Perspectives
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026
Zeve Sanderson
Social Scientist, Google
Schuster Media & Technology Fellowship
Fall 2026
Teresa Mondría Terol
Sr. Product Manager, AI Labs at NPR
Schuster Media & Technology Fellowship
Fall 2026
Khushboo Ranka
Award-winning filmmaker and producer
Documentary Film in the Public Interest Fellowship
Fall 2026, Spring 2026
Elizabeth Radshaw
Award-winning producer and cultural strategist
Documentary Film in the Public Interest Fellowship
Fall 2026, Spring 2026
Azza Cohen
Documentary filmmaker and visual media researcher
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Allison Abbott
Civic technologist and designer
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Erin Zimmer Strenio
Executive Director, Conversationalist.org
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Julia Allison
Cultural commentator, entrepreneur, and former journalist
Shorenstein Fellowship
Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025