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Faculty
Ayushi Roy
Ayushi helps build, fund and advise more equitable and inclusive technology to better deliver government services. Ayushi currently serves as the Deputy Director of the New Practice Lab at New America. Previously, she served at 18F as the Director of State and Local Technology, and more recently, on the leadership team managing investments for the US Technology Modernization Fund, a $1B fund to modernize
Kathy Pham
Kathy Pham is a product leader, computer scientist, and founder who has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, consulting, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. She was named the 2024 ABIE Technical Leadership Award Recipient, following recent past recipient Drs. Feifei Li (Stanford), Daphne Koller (Coursera), Lisa Su (AMD), Margaret
Gregory Harris
Greg Harris has taught writing at Harvard University for 19 years, in the College, the John F Kennedy School of Government, and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Greg is founding editor of Pangyrus Literary Magazine, and founding director of Harvard’s literary festival Harvard LITfest. His essays, reviews, and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, the Chronicle of
James Geary
James Geary is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He has also taught at Bennington College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Harvard Extension School, and Tufts University and has been an Ida Beam Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa. He is the former deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard,
Austin Bogues
Austin Bogues is a politics editor at USA TODAY where he helps lead breaking news coverage of the 2024 campaign. Previously, he has served as commentary editor at the paper and has worked at local newspapers including the Asbury Park Press on the Jersey Shore, and the Daily Press Media Group in Hampton Roads, Va.
Candace Bertotti
Candace Bertotti’s passion is to deliver relevant and valuable skills, and enable participants to rapidly put those skills into practice and achieve better results. Candace works with a range of audiences (from CEOs to coal miners), industries (from healthcare to high-tech), and organizations (from Google to Homeland Security and hundreds of others). She is the founder
Rebecca Richman Cohen
Rebecca Richman Cohen is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who teaches courses on media theory and advocacy at Harvard Law School. Through her work, she has examined a range of topics, including the prosecution of war crimes in Sierra Leone, responses to sexual violence in the US, cannabis legalization, and biodynamic winemaking. Her most recent film,
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Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She previously was Obama’s special assistant to the president for science, technology, and innovation policy and co-led the FCC transition team between his and the Bush administrations. Earlier in her career, Crawford was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
Rick Berke
Rick Berke is assistant managing editor for The New York Times. Since joining The Times in 1986, he has covered assorted beats, including the White House, Congress and domestic policy, as well as presidential and congressional elections. From 1981–1986 he was at The Baltimore Evening Sun, where he worked as the Washington correspondent for the
Peter D. Hart
Peter D. Hart is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy for the Fall of 2013. He is one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States and will be teaching a Kennedy School course called “Polling in the Real World: Using Survey Research to Win Elections
Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford is the Visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. She is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a columnist for Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and
Micah L. Sifry
Micah L. Sifry is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Since 2004, he has been co-founder, editor and curator of the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF), a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics. He is also the editor of TechPresident.com, PdF’s award-winning blog on
Gina Glantz
Gina Glantz is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. She is a nationally recognized leader and innovator in grassroots organizing, campaign strategy and technology in politics. Glantz has worked as a campaign manager, field director and political consultant at the congressional, state and presidential level. She will be teaching a module (half-course) at the Kennedy
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy at the Shorenstein Center. He is a writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an associate teacher at New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. His courses address the
Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Before his appointment as the first public editor of The New York Times in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, he was editor-at-large at Time Inc.; editor of new media for all Time Inc. publications; and managing editor of
Nicco Mele
Nicco Mele will be the Visiting Lecturer in the Murrow Chair. He will teach a Kennedy School course on the Internet as a mechanism for communication, with a special emphasis on its use in politics. He is the founder and president of EchoDitto, a leading Internet strategy consulting company. Mele has broad experience working with
Carol Darr
Carol Darr is the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, where she is also an associate research professor. She has spent most of her career in national politics and government and served as the General Counsel to the Democratic
Matthew A. Baum
Matthew A. Baum is a Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy. He joined the Kennedy School faculty in July 2006 and is an associate professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA. Baum’s research focuses on integrating domestic political variables into theories of international conflict and cooperation in general and American foreign policy in
William Kristol
William Kristol, Lecturer in Public Policy, is an analyst for the Fox News Channel and has been editor of the Weekly Standard since its founding in 1995. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future (from 1993 to 1995), where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. He served as
