Ben is a technology, media and business strategy executive based in New York. Most recently, he was a director at Google where he co-founded the Google News Initiative, a company-wide effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age, and directed many of the company’s strategy and partnership efforts with the broader news industry. Prior […]
K. Russell DeGraff spent nearly two decades on Capitol Hill, culminating in 12 years as the chief climate and technology advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. DeGraff played a key role in helping Congress architect, enact, explain and enforce significant legislation. He also helped form coalitions and lead negotiations to enact policies and laws spanning
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Alison King is an award-winning journalist with over 30 years of experience in the broadcasting industry. She spent most of her career covering politics in New England including leading the local, state and regional political coverage for NBC Boston/NECN from 1995 until her retirement from TV in March of 2023. She has covered seven presidential
Tabitha Jackson has spent the last 30 years supporting the independent voice, championing the social and cultural power of artful nonfiction, and furthering the mission of uplifting a more expansive set of makers, audiences, and forms. Most recently as the first woman and person of color to be appointed Director of Sundance Film Festival she re-imagined
Amy Hobby is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning producer of independent films. In 2011, Amy co-founded TANGERINE ENTERTAINMENT, a production company working exclusively with female-identifying film directors. She is also the former Executive Director of the TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE and a current co-founder of DISTRIBUTION ADVOCATES, a movement to reclaim the means of distribution
Mary Lampson is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker and editor. Her documentaries include, Harlan County, USA (directed by Barbara Kopple, co-edited with Nancy Baker), Underground (co-directed with Emile de Antonio and Haskell Wexler), and Until She Talks which she directed. She has worked with filmmakers Ricky Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, and has produced and directed 25
Natalie Bullock Brown is an award-winning producer, a 2021 Rockwood Institute JustFilms Fellow, and the director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group, a collective she helped to found in 2020. DAWG created and released a values- informed framework for documentary filmmakers in 2022 that emphasizes care, consent, and collaboration as a pathway to ethical storytelling. Previously,
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Jacqueline Olive is an independent filmmaker with nearly twenty years of experience in journalism and film. Her award-winning debut documentary film, Always in Season, has received numerous honors including winner of the 2019 Sundance Festival Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency and nominations for Best Writing from IDA Documentary Awards (2019) and Cinema Eye Honors (2019).
Kirsten Johnson is a documentary filmmaker and one of the only 5% of women members of the American Society of Cinematographers. Her camerawork appears in, among others, Academy Award winner Citizen Four, Academy nominated The Invisible War, and Cannes Winner Farenheit 9/11. Her film Dick Johnson is Dead premiered at Sundance 2020, where it won the Jury Prize
Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author and radio host. She is editor-in-chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language, independent political weekly. Since 2004, Albats has hosted Absolute Albats, a talk-show on Echo Moskvy, the last remaining liberal radio station in Russia, until it was taken off the air ten days into Russia’s war
Brandi Collins-Dexter researches, writes, and presents on issues pertaining to Black participation in democracy and the US economy, with particular focus on the role technology and information integrity play in improving or deteriorating community health. As former Senior Campaign Director of media, culture and economic justice at Color Of Change, she led a number of
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Julia Angwin is a Pulitzer-Prize winning contributing Opinion writer for the New York Times who writes about the impacts of technology on societies. She is an investigative journalist and entrepreneur who founded The Markup, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that produced methodologically precise investigative journalism. She also led data-driven investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall
Camilla Monckton currently in UK Government, was Head of Strategic Communications in the Cabinet Office (2021-2024) leading on a program of work to counter disinformation by partnering with governments to build strategic communications capability. She has worked with the UN, think tanks and a range of Governments on security and development challenges globally. While a
Keri Putnam is an award-winning senior media executive, producer, board member, and strategic advisor to media companies and nonprofit organizations. Throughout her career, she has supported, developed, and produced bold, original media from new and established talent and advocated for a more diverse and inclusive media. In 2022, Putnam founded Putnam Pictures to produce film
Christiane Baumann is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School studying Emotions and Decision Making with Prof. Jennifer Lerner. She received her Masters degrees in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and in Psychology from the University of Zurich and completed her Ph.D. in Computational Modeling and Decision Making at the University of Zurich in
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Caitlin Dickerson is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer for The Atlantic magazine. Dickerson has reported on immigration from three continents and dozens of American cities. She has broken news about changes in deportation and detention policy, and often profiles the lives of immigrants, including those without legal status. Previously, Dickerson spent nearly five years as a reporter at The New York
Tom Casciato is an award-winning filmmaker, director, writer, producer and executive who has created critically acclaimed nonfiction projects that have appeared on PBS, ABC, NBC, TBS, Showtime and more. He is currently directing a documentary about criminal justice in New Orleans, and is also a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour. He has recently served as the
Adam Lashinsky is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and seasoned TV and radio commentator who has covered the technology industry, finance, and other topics for more than 30 years, with postings and assignments on three continents. He is the former executive editor of Fortune Magazine, where for two decades he covered the biggest and fastest-growing companies
Kasia Chmielinski is the Co-Founder of The Data Nutrition Project, an initiative that builds tools to mitigate bias in artificial intelligence. As a Shorenstein Fellow, their focus will be on policy and tooling mechanisms to drive responsible algorithmic systems. They are also a Senior Researcher at the Partnership on AI with a focus on machine
Kathy Gannon served as news director for Pakistan and Afghanistan for The Associated Press until May, 2022. She has covered the Afghanistan/Pakistan region for the AP as a correspondent and bureau chief since 1988, a period that spans the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Afghanistan, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the bitter Afghan civil war,
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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