Our Team
About our director
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab (The GovLab). Her newest book Democracy Rebooted: How AI Can Save Democracy will appear with Yale University Press. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state’s first Chief AI Strategist in 2024. Previously, she served as the NJ Chief Innovation Officer, founded the White House Open Government Initiative under President Obama, worked for 10 Downing Street, and served on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Digital Council. She leads InnovateUS, which trains public servants in AI, digital, and innovation skills and the AI for Impact Coop Program, where students build AI for social good. She blogs at RebootDemocracy.ai.
For more about her publications and activities, read Beth’s full bio.
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Jill Abramson
Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Chike Aguh
Senior Fellow -
Rob Asaro-Angelo
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Elana Banin
Interim Director of Communications and Editor of the Reboot Democracy blog -
John Basl
Affiliated Faculty Fellow -
John Battelle
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Cevdet Batuhan Isik
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Róbert Bjarnason
Senior Fellow -
Sofía Bosch Gómez
Assistant Professor and Fellow -
Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza
Senior Fellow -
Swaapnika Chowdary Cherukuru
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Fred DeJohn
Chief Financial Officer -
Anirudh Dinesh
CTO -
David Fields
Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Laura Forlano
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Dane Gambrell
Research Fellow -
Manan Gangwani
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Santiago “Santi” Garces
AI for Impact Technical Lead and Senior Fellow -
Erhardt Graeff
Senior Fellow and Visiting FacultyErhardt Graeff is an educator, social scientist, public interest technologist, and public official. He is a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change…
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Virginia Hamilton
Senior Fellow -
Seth Harris
Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Hassan Ibrahim
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Christine Ine
Program Coordinator at InnovateUS -
Raveena Ingale
Web Developer -
Dan Jackson
Senior Fellow and Director of NuLawLab -
Kyla Jerry
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Steven Kadish
Senior Fellow -
Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar
Generative AI Engineer -
Jonathan Kaufman
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor and Director in the School of Journalism -
Ayush Khanvilkar
Web Development Co-op -
Neil Kleiman
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Laila Diaz
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Sai Punith Kolla
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Sanjeev Kushal Pendekanti
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Alister Martin (on leave)
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Anita McGahan
Senior Research Scientist -
Bonnie McGilpin
Director of Communications -
Priya Mehta
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jonathan Metzl
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Mia Nguyen
Power At Work Co-op -
Cory Ondrejka
Senior Fellow -
Costas Panagopoulos
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair -
Gregory A. Porumbescu
Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University–Newark. -
Anjith Prakash Chathan Kandy
AI Engineer -
Águeda Quiroga
Workshops Lead at InnovateUS -
Annamarie Rapa
Clinic Operations Co-op -
Alberto Rodriguez Alvarez
Director of Partnerships, InnovateUS -
Ben Ruxin
Research Fellow -
Matt Ryan
Senior Fellow -
Stephan Schmidt
Digital Producer -
Brandon Sewdass
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jessica Silverman
Communications Assistant -
Roxy Story
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Corliss Thompson
Associate Dean of Graduate School of Education -
Eileen Twiggs
Strategic Advisor -
Jonathan Velez
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Mariana Villamizar
Designer at the Burnes Center for Social Change -
Allison Wan
Research Fellow -
Amanda Welsh
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Practice -
John Wihbey
Affiliated Faculty Fellow -
Weibo Zheng
AI For Impact Co-Op