Michael Slaby was Chief Integration and Innovation Officer for the Obama campaign in 2012 and Chief Technology Officer for the campaign in 2008. He has also worked as executive vice president and digital global practice chair at Edelman and chief technology strategist at TomorrowVentures. At the Shorenstein Center, Mr. Slaby pursued a project about the […]
Kathleen Reen is a vice-president at Internews, an international non-profit organization that seeks to empower local media worldwide. She leads the development, design and implementation of their media and information programs across Asia, global internet initiatives, and environmental programs. Reen has a background as a journalist and documentary film producer in Eastern and Southern Europe
Joshua Partlow is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. Between 2009 and 2012, he was the paper’s Kabul bureau chief. Before going to Afghanistan, he worked as the Post’s correspondent in South America, based in Rio de Janeiro, and as a correspondent in Iraq. Partlow joined The Washington Post in 2003. He was on the financial desk and later worked
Matthew Nisbet is an associate professor of communication and director of the Climate Shift Project at American University. He has written over 50 studies, book chapters and monographs examining the communication dynamics of policymaking and public affairs, focusing on science, the environment and public health. Nisbet has been named a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert
Tara McKelvey is a correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. McKelvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in General Nonfiction. She is the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War and has been a contributor to two other books, New
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
Ron Suskind is the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence. One of the country’s most celebrated non-fiction writers, Suskind was The Wall Street Journal‘s senior national affairs writer from 1993 to 2000, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and wrote A Hope in the Unseen, a critically-acclaimed 1998 bestseller which followed inner city honor students in their struggles to
H.D.S. (David) Greenway is a contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost. He was the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, and before that its national editor, and foreign editor tasked with setting up the Globe‘s foreign news bureaus. As a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, he was posted to Jerusalem, Saigon and Hong Kong; and for Time
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Nina Easton is a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is Fortune magazine’s Washington columnist and senior editor, covering politics and economics in the nation’s capital. She is a regular panelist on “Fox News Sunday” and “Special Report,” and has provided analysis for numerous other shows, including “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” and “Charlie
Nazila Fathi is a journalist, translator and commentator on Iran. She reported out of Iran for nearly two decades until 2009 when she was forced to leave the country because of government threats against her. She was based in Tehran from 2001 for The New York Times until she left, during a time when she wrote over 2,000
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
Mark McKinnon was a Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. For 30 years, McKinnon has worked as a communications strategist for causes, companies and candidates, including President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Congressman “Good Time” Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong and Bono. He is a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and
Neal Gabler is an author, cultural historian, television commentator and teacher. He is the author of a number of best-selling and prize-winning books, including An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood; Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity; Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality; and Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Gabler is
Vivek Kundra was appointed as the first United States Chief Information Officer by President Obama and is credited with saving over $3 billion in taxpayer dollars, adopting game-changing technologies in the public sector, strengthening the cybersecurity posture of the nation and launching an open government movement through the data.gov platform, which has been replicated across
Renée Loth was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is a columnist for the Boston Globe and is the newspaper’s former editorial page editor. In that capacity, Loth was the highest-ranking woman at the Globe for nine years. Loth holds a journalism degree from Boston University, where she edited the campus newspaper during the 1970s. She
Frederick “Fritz” Mayer is an associate professor of public policy studies and political science at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. One strand of Mayer’s research focuses on globalization and its effects, with particular emphasis on the labor and environmental effects of economic integration. He is the author of Interpreting NAFTA: The Art and Science of
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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
Wajahat S. Khan is a broadcast and online journalist who has produced and anchored for Pakistan’s primary networks: Geo, Dawn and Aaj TV. Khan has also written and edited for Pakistani dailies Dawn and Express Tribune and the periodicals Newsweek Pakistan and The Herald. He was embedded with Pakistan’s ground-forces along some of the world’s most isolated and militarized borders investigating the tactical,
Neil Lewis was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He was a correspondent with The New York Times from 1985 until his retirement in 2009. He has covered the Justice Department, the State Department and a variety of other assignments, including presidential campaigns, Supreme Court nomination battles and Guantanamo. Before joining The Times, he worked for Reuters
Alexis Gelber was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is a former editor of Newsweek, and supervised award-winning coverage of politics, social issues and international news as the magazine’s national affairs editor, assistant managing editor and the managing editor of Newsweek International. As Director of Special Projects from 2001 to 2008, she created
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