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 -
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 -
Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza
Senior Fellow -
Angelique Casem
Media & Communications Co-op -
Giorgia Christiansen
Communications and Digital Media Co-op -
Fred DeJohn
Chief Financial Officer -
Anirudh Dinesh
Research 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 -
Erhardt Graeff
Senior Fellow and Visiting Faculty -
Diane Grant
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Virginia Hamilton
Senior Fellow -
Seth Harris
Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Divya Hegde
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Raveena Ingale
Web Development Intern -
Dan Jackson
Senior Fellow and Director of NuLawLab -
Steven Kadish
Senior Fellow -
Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar
AI for Impact Team -
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 -
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 -
Mia Nguyen
Power At Work Co-op -
Max Norman
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Cory Ondrejka
Senior Fellow -
Costas Panagopoulos
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair -
Dan Piltch
Project Manager -
Anjith Prakash Chathan Kandy
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Prasoon Raj
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Ben Ruxin
Research Fellow -
Matt Ryan
Senior Fellow -
Sai Panindra Santosh Kumar Majji
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Stephan Schmidt
Digital Producer -
Alayna Schwarzer
InnovateMA Co-Op -
Jessica Silverman
Communications Assistant -
Arinjay Singh
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jai Surya
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Dhruv Reddy Tekulapalli
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Aarushi Thejaswi
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Corliss Thompson
Associate Dean of Graduate School of Education -
Amanda Welsh
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Practice