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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.

  • Jill Abramson

    Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow
  • Chike Aguh

    Senior Fellow
  • Raiyah Ahmid

    Communications Assistant
  • Alexandra Anderson

    Communications Intern
  • Kristin Barrali

    Director of Major Gifts
  • John Battelle

    Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice
  • Sofía Bosch Gómez

    Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Dana Bullister

    Post Graduate Research Assistant
  • Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza

    Senior Fellow
  • Kate Cummings

    Research Fellow
  • Fred DeJohn

    Chief Financial Officer
  • Anna Deng

    Assistant Designer
  • Anirudh Dinesh

    Research Fellow
  • Fahad Dogar

    Senior Fellow
  • David Fields

    Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow
  • Laura Forlano

    Professor and Senior Fellow
  • Dane Gambrell

    Research Fellow
  • Caleb Gayle

    Professor and Senior Fellow
  • Henri Hammond-Paul

    Research Fellow
  • Seth Harris

    Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow
  • Hannah Hetzer

    Research Fellow
  • Steven Kadish

    Senior Fellow
  • Jonathan Kaufman

    Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor and Director in the School of Journalism
  • Neil Kleiman

    Professor and Senior Fellow
  • Olivia Leon

    Communications Intern
  • Orna Madigan

    Graduate Research Assistant
  • Anita McGahan

    Professor and Senior Fellow
  • Bonnie McGilpin

    Fellow
  • Jonathan Metzl

    Professor and Senior Fellow
  • 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
  • Jamie Rothman

    Executive Assistant
  • Stephan Schmidt

    Digital Producer
  • Jessica Silverman

    Communications Assistant
  • Asia Simms

    Communications Intern

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