Staff Bio
Emine Dogan
Emine Dogan is a DevOps Engineer for the Public Interest Technology Lab, where she is helping to build models of alternative online app and privacy platforms, and working on voting, misinformation, and manufacturing infrastructures. Before this, she was a Software Quality Assurance Analyst at Boston IVY TECH and recently completed AWS re/Start and Cloud DevOps
Gabrielle Malina
Gabby Malina is a passionate scholar with diverse interests in public interest technology, religion and politics, and the world of wine. As the Project Manager for the Public Interest Tech Lab’s FBarchive, she works alongside Dr. Latanya Sweeney and the rest of the Tech Lab team to grow the project and support research being done
Nicole Dillon
Nicole Dillon is the Director of Finance and Administration at the Shorenstein Center, where she leads financial management for the center, as well as overseeing hiring, procurement, and sponsored awards. She joined the Kennedy School in 2019 at the central Office of Financial Services before moving to the Shorenstein Center in 2022. Prior to the
Sara Archambault
Sara Archambault is the Program Director for the Shorenstein Center’s Documentary Film in the Public Interest research initiative. Sara is an experienced documentary film producer and programmer, whose recent producing credits include the Indie Spirits-nominated film RIOTSVILLE, USA (Sundance, Magnolia Pictures); Truth or Consequences (Rotterdam, Sentient Art Films), A DECENT HOME (Denver Film Festival, America
Lindsay Underwood
Lindsay is the Assistant Director of Communications at the Shorenstein Center and oversees the majority of the Center’s public-facing editorial content, including our bi-weekly newsletter, our commentary blog, and the Center’s publications. She also collaborates on strategic communications planning for the Center, and assists with the strategic planning and promotion of the Center’s public events
Viktoria Gabriel
Viktoria Gabriel is the Managing Editor at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. She holds degrees in English, Social Psychology, and German Studies, and is a former radio journalist and lecturer in German. Her research focuses on mass media, immigration, and propaganda.
Denise-Marie Ordway
Denise-Marie Ordway joined The Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after reporting for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and Philadelphia Inquirer. She received various national, regional and state-level journalism awards and, in 2013, was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigative series she led. Ordway, a
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Christiane Baumann
Christiane Baumann is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School studying Emotions and Decision Making with Prof. Jennifer Lerner. She received her Masters degrees in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and in Psychology from the University of Zurich and completed her Ph.D. in Computational Modeling and Decision Making at the University of Zurich in
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Caroline Kracunas
Caroline is the Shorenstein Center’s Events and Communications Manager, where she helps to schedule, organize, promote and produce in-person, virtual and hybrid events that represent the Center, its fellows and the various research programs and initiatives. She also supports the center’s visiting fellows with scheduling, networking and other administrative needs, and provides general communications help
Liz Schwartz
Liz Schwartz oversees the Shorenstein Center’s external communications, student-facing and public events, and fellows program. She works with research teams and faculty to promote new publications and initiatives, advises the center’s student programming, and leads the center’s high-profile prize programs, including the annual Goldsmith Awards. Liz has worked in digital and nonprofit strategy and communications
James Waldo
Jim Waldo is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, where he teaches courses in distributed systems and privacy; the Chief Technology Officer for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and a Professor of Policy teaching on topics of technology and policy
Latanya Sweeney
Latanya Sweeney is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, director and founder of the Public Interest Tech Lab, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science, director and founder of the Data Privacy Lab, former Chief Technology Officer at the
Thomas E. Patterson
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. In the past, he has authored three books, Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism; How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy, and Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?. An earlier book, The Vanishing Voter, examined electoral
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