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 -
Pradnya Balamurugan
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Kristin Barrali
Director of Major Gifts -
John Basl
Affiliated Faculty Fellow -
John Battelle
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Róbert Bjarnason
Senior Fellow -
Sofía Bosch Gómez
Assistant Professor and Fellow -
Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza
Senior Fellow -
Angelique Casem
Media & Communications Co-op -
Myojung Chung
Professor at Northeastern University -
Marlon Peña Crespo
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Fred DeJohn
Chief Financial Officer -
Sahana Dhar
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Anirudh Dinesh
CTO -
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 -
Virginia Hamilton
Senior Fellow -
Seth Harris
Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow -
Emily Inga
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Raveena Ingale
Web Development Intern -
Isabella Iype
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Dan Jackson
Senior Fellow and Director of NuLawLab -
Arnav Jaiswal
AI For Impact Co-Op -
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 -
Ashley La Rotonda
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Bonisha Maitra
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Alister Martin
Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice -
Anita McGahan
Senior Research Scientist -
Bonnie McGilpin
Director of Communications -
Jonathan Metzl
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Mia Nguyen
Power At Work Co-op -
Simel Noori
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 -
Águeda Quiroga
Workshops Lead at InnovateUS -
Srihari Raman
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Annamarie Rapa
Clinic Operations Co-op -
Alberto Rodriguez Alvarez
Director of Partnerships, InnovateUS -
Ben Ruxin
Research Fellow -
Matt Ryan
Senior Fellow -
Nina Salamatova
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Stephan Schmidt
Digital Producer -
Sachin Shrestha
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jessica Silverman
Communications Assistant -
Jose Sosa
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Jai Surya
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Corliss Thompson
Associate Dean of Graduate School of Education -
Neha Tummala
AI For Impact Co-Op -
Amanda Welsh
Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Practice -
John Wihbey
Affiliated Faculty Fellow -
Sam Yuen
AI For Impact Co-Op