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 GovLab. She is faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI, School of Law, and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Design, and Media, the College of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
Previously, Beth served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer under President Obama. She founded the White House Open Government Initiative, which created policies and platforms, such as data.gov and challenge.gov, for making the federal government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. In 2020, Beth designed Ask a Scientist to crowdsource answers to COVID questions.
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 -
Kristin Barrali
Director of Major Gifts -
John Battelle
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Róbert Bjarnason
Senior Fellow -
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 -
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
Technical Director -
Santiago “Santi” Garces
Senior Fellow -
Caleb Gayle
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Diane Grant
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Vanessa Guan
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Henri Hammond-Paul
Fellow -
Seth Harris
Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Hannah Hetzer
Research Fellow -
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 -
Neil Kleiman
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Olivia Leon
Communications Intern -
Alister Martin
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Anita McGahan
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Bonnie McGilpin
Fellow -
Jonathan Metzl
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Beth Noveck
Director, The Burnes Center for Social Change -
Bela Omoeva
Solutions Journalism Reporter -
Cory Ondrejka
Senior Fellow -
Costas Panagopoulos
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair -
Dan Piltch
Project Manager -
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Post Graduate Research Assistant -
Matt Ryan
Senior Fellow -
Sai Panindra Santosh Kumar Majji
InnovateMA 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 -
Briana Torres
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Blake Valenta
Senior Fellow -
Jasmehar Vohra
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Kane Xu
InnovateMA Co-Op