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Most Voters in States Without Voter ID Requirements Wrongly Believe ID Is Required
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
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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 Burnett (ACM and OSU), and Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante Foundation). Kathy was a founding product and engineering member of the United States Digital Service, where she served across three presidential administrations. Kathy currently serves as the Workday Vice President of Artificial Intelligence. Most recently, she was appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the United States National AI Advisory Committee, tasked with advising the United States President and the National AI Initiative Office. Previously, she served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Trade Commission. Kathy also serves as a Senior Advisor at Mozilla, and has been affiliated with the Shorenstein Center in various capacities as a fellow, researcher, and affiliate, since 2017.
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Explore how “The Diplomat” brings the work of diplomacy to life, the people and experiences that shape the series, and what the show can reveal about the practice of diplomacy in a period of profound geopolitical change.
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JFK Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
October 26 - 6:00 PM ET
Join BISG for an interactive book talk with Stanford Professor Nir Halevy to learn practical ways to navigate workplace hierarchies and build healthier organizations.
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Harvard Campus, Wexner Building, Room W-G02
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
A webinar to help inform reporting on the budget deficit in the United States
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Zoom webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Media access to the White House has become an increasingly important topic of discussion ahead of the midterm elections. To break this down, we welcome Don Lemon, an award-winning journalist who spent thirty years at CNN, NBC, and MSNBC before leaving network television to build his own media company, along with Fall 2026 IOP Resident Fellow Chris Whipple.
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JFK Jr. Forum
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Olivier Sylvain will discuss how decades of communications policy shaped today’s internet, drawing on his new book, Reclaiming the Internet, to explore what this history means for online platforms and AI. This event is part of The Misinformation Speaker Series.
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Zoom & Northeastern University, 216 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd floor
4:00 PM ET
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Zoom & Northeastern University, 216 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd floor
12:00 PM ET
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Zoom & Northeastern University, 216 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd floor
11:00 AM ET
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Zoom webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Join The Journalist’s Resource and technology and government expert, Erie Meyer, to learn specific techniques to interrogate corporate chatbots
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Zoom webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Learn how election officials are beginning to work with social media influencers and creators to provide accurate, accessible and engaging civic information.
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Zoom webinar
4:00 PM ET