Christian L. Tom

Christian L. Tom most recently served as Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy in the Biden White House. He has previously worked across the business, academic, and political aspects of the digital media landscape in a variety of roles and capacities. Before the White House, he led the first-of-its-kind Digital Partnerships team on President Biden’s 2020 campaign, and led digital for the Biden-Harris Inauguration. Previously, he was Publisher at the digital publishers NowThis and The Dodo, where he oversaw revenue across the two media brands. Before that, he worked at Twitter and at YouTube, both in revenue functions. Tom holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Stanford University. He also was the Head of Americas for the McCourt Institute and was in the inaugural class at Singularity University. As a Shorenstein Fellow, Tom will examine digital media habits across the partisan electorate, with the goal of better understanding how people on the political left and right find political content online, how that content differs from one end of the political spectrum to the other, and how people who aren’t necessarily seeking political content might encounter it.