Staff Bio

Jeffrey Seglin

Jeffrey L. Seglin is a Senior Lecturer, Emeritus. From 2011 until 2023, he was the Director of the HKS Communications Program and a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Public Policy. He writes “The Right Thing,” a weekly column on general ethics that has been syndicated by Tribune Media Services since September 2010. From 2004 through 2010, he wrote […]

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Enrique Pedráza-Botero

Enrique is a visual artist, filmmaker and media executive from Bogotá, Colombia with over twelve years of experience working in the entertainment industry and the nonprofit sector. He was recently appointed to co-lead the Documentary Film Initiative at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School, as Manager of Special Projects. The initiative aims to support

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Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She previously was Obama’s special assistant to the president for science, technology, and innovation policy and co-led the FCC transition team between his and the Bush administrations. Earlier in her career, Crawford was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.

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Jimmy Huettig

As the Project Data Coordinator with the Public Interest Technology Lab, Jimmy has worked with data in a variety of ways. He has served as an analyst and product manager for the development the Tech Lab’s in-house developed apps and platforms by leading efforts related to the storage, management, curation, and analysis of data associated

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Emily Dreyfuss

Emily Dreyfuss is a journalist who covers the impact of technology on society, with a focus on social media and information systems. She is the director of the Shorenstein Center’s News Lab, and previously was senior editor on the center’s Technology and Social Change (TaSC) team. Emily got her start in journalism as a local

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Megan O’Neil

Megan is an administrative professional with a background in supporting academic research on technology, law and society. She is currently the Associate Director of the Shorenstein Center News Lab. She previously managed the Technology and Social Change Project at the Shorenstein Center. Megan holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Government from the Harvard

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Mary Lampson

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

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Natalie Bullock Brown

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

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).

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Kirsten Johnson

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

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Yevgenia Albats

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

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Brandi Collins-Dexter

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

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

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Camilla Monckton

Camilla Monckton

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

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Keri Putnam

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

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