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 -
Raiyah Ahmid
Communications Assistant -
Temi Akinyoade
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jake Ashkenase
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Kristin Barrali
Director of Major Gifts -
John Basl
Affiliated Faculty Fellow -
John Battelle
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Druhi Bhargava
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Róbert Bjarnason
Senior Fellow -
Ritik Bompilwar
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Sofía Bosch Gómez
Assistant Professor and Fellow -
Etta Brooks
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Dana Bullister
Post Graduate Research Assistant -
Stephanie Cain
Interim Lead for InnovateUS -
Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza
Senior Fellow -
Angelique Casem
Media & Communications Co-op -
Kate Cummings
Research Fellow -
Fred DeJohn
Chief Financial Officer -
Anirudh Dinesh
Research Fellow -
Fahad Dogar
Senior Fellow -
Cristin Dorgelo
Visiting Fellow -
David Fields
Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Laura Forlano
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Dane Gambrell
Research Fellow -
Santiago “Santi” Garces
AI for Impact Technical Lead and Senior Fellow -
Caleb Gayle
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Rui Ge
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Suvir Ghai
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Erhardt Graeff
Senior Fellow and Visiting Faculty -
Diane Grant
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Serena Green
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Vanessa Guan
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Virginia Hamilton
Senior Fellow -
Henri Hammond-Paul
Fellow -
Seth Harris
Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Divya Hegde
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Hannah Hetzer
Research Fellow -
Mindy Huang
Tech Mentor -
Raveena Ingale
Web Development Co-op -
Namitha J C
Web development Co-Op -
Dan Jackson
Senior Fellow and Director of NuLawLab -
Steven Kadish
Senior Fellow -
Rachel Kahn
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Jonathan Kaufman
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor and Director in the School of Journalism -
Jay Kemp
Artificial Intelligence and Social Impact Fellow -
Ayush Khanvilkar
Web Development Intern -
Neil Kleiman
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Sarah Klute
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Leadora Kyin
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Olivia Leon
Communications Intern -
Claudia Levi
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Kaushik Manivannan
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Alister Martin
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Anita McGahan
Senior Research Scientist -
Bonnie McGilpin
Director of Communications -
Deepikasai Mettu
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jonathan Metzl
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Zeno Minotti
Worker Power and Labor Communications Specialist -
Max Norman
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Bela Omoeva
Solutions Journalism Reporter -
Cory Ondrejka
Senior Fellow -
Costas Panagopoulos
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair -
Khushi Patel
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Dan Piltch
Project Manager -
Anjith Prakash Chathan Kandy
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Prasoon Raj
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Post Graduate Research Assistant -
Ben Ruxin
Research Fellow -
Matt Ryan
Senior Fellow -
Pari Sabety
Tech Mentor -
Sai Panindra Santosh Kumar Majji
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Rishabh Saxena
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Stephan Schmidt
Digital Producer -
Alayna Schwarzer
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Rudra Sett
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Jessica Silverman
Communications Assistant -
Asia Simms
Communications Intern -
Ria Singh
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Arinjay Singh
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jai Surya
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Dhruv Reddy Tekulapallin
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Shreya Thalvayapati
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Aarushi Thejaswi
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Briana Torres
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Blake Valenta
Senior Fellow -
Jasmehar Vohra
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Amanda Welsh
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Practice -
Kane Xu
InnovateMA Co-Op