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
Jennifer Lerner
Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management
Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Thomas E. Patterson
Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
Todd Rogers
Weatherhead Professor of Public Policy
Latanya Sweeney
Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology
James Waldo
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, HKS; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, SEAS
Affiliated Faculty
Lauren Brodsky
Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Professor of Global Digital Media, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Faculty Affiliate
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
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
Tarek Masoud
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Pippa Norris
Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS
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
Ayushi Roy
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Faculty Affiliate
Rebecca Richman Cohen
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Affiliate
Jeffrey Seglin
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Emeritus
Maya Sen
Professor of Public Policy, HKS
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
Caroline Kracunas
Events and Communications Manager
Emily Roseman
Research Community Lead, Shorenstein Center
Liz Schwartz
Director of Communications and Strategy
Alyssa Simmons
Senior Grants Manager
Deep Singh
Finance Associate
Natalie Solomon
Executive Coordinator
Lindsay Underwood
Assistant Director of Communications
Program Staff
Betsy Hartman
Faculty Assistant & Project Coordinator, Lerner Lab
Christiane Baumann
Program Fellow, Lerner Lab
Heather Sulejman
Managing Director of the Constructive Disagreement Project
Charlotte Tuminelli
Executive Director, Computational Policy Lab
Joe Nudell
Lead Engineer, Computational Policy Lab
Evangelos Kassos
Engineer, Computational Policy Lab
Muskan Walia
Research Associate, Computational Policy Lab
Sara Archambault
Program Director, Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative
Enrique Pedráza-Botero
Program Manager, Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative
Sydney Tanigawa
Project Coordinator, Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative
Carmen Nobel
Program Director and Editor-in-Chief, The Journalist's Resource
Denise-Marie Ordway
Managing Editor, The Journalist's Resource
Clark Merrefield
Senior Editor, Economics, The Journalist's Resource
Naseem Miller
Senior Editor, Health, The Journalist's Resource
Magdalena Tarnawska Senel
Managing Editor, HKS Misinformation Review
Current Fellows
Khushboo Ranka
Documentary Film in the Public Interest Fellowship
Spring 2026
Elizabeth Radshaw
Documentary Film in the Public Interest Fellowship
Spring 2026
Patricia Finneran
Documentary Film in the Public Interest Fellowship
Spring 2026
Azza Cohen
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Arun Venkataraman
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Allison Abbott
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Ben Reininga
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Erin Zimmer Strenio
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Julia Allison
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Rebecca Piazza
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Steve Johnson
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Mark MacGann
Shorenstein Fellowship
Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024