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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

  • Rob Asaro-Angelo

    Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice

  • Elana Banin

    Managing Director of the Reboot Democracy blog

  • John Basl

    Affiliated Faculty Fellow
  • John Battelle

    John Battelle

    Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice

  • Róbert Bjarnason

    Senior Fellow

  • Sofía Bosch Gómez

    Assistant Professor and Fellow

  • Nico Campbell

    AI Program Manager

  • Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza

    Senior Fellow

  • Fred DeJohn

    Chief Financial Officer

  • Anirudh Dinesh

    Infrastructure Project Manager

  • 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

    Erhardt Graeff is an educator, social scientist, public interest technologist, and public official. He is a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change…

  • Diane Grant

    AI Product Manager

  • Virginia Hamilton

    Senior Fellow

  • Seth Harris

    Distinguished Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow

  • Christine Ine

    Program Coordinator at InnovateUS

  • Dan Jackson

    Senior Fellow and Director of NuLawLab

  • Steven Kadish

    Senior Fellow

  • Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar

    Generative AI Engineer

  • Jonathan Kaufman

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

  • Ayush Khanvilkar

    Web Developer

  • Neil Kleiman

    Professor and Senior Fellow

  • David Madigan

    Distinguished Senior Fellow and Professor

    David Madigan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow and Professor of Statistics at Northeastern University and Special Advisor to the President.

  • Alister Martin (on leave)

    Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice

  • Anita McGahan

    Senior Research Scientist

  • Bonnie McGilpin

    Director of Communications

  • Priya Mehta

    Web Developer

  • Jonathan Metzl

    Professor and Senior Fellow

  • Cory Ondrejka

    Senior Fellow

  • Costas Panagopoulos

    Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair

  • Gregory A. Porumbescu

    Senior Fellow

  • Anjith Prakash Chathan Kandy

    AI Engineer

  • Águeda Quiroga

    Live Learning Lead at InnovateUS

  • Lee Rainie

    Senior Fellow, Burnes Center for Social Change

    Lee Rainie is a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change and Director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University.…

  • Alberto Rodriguez Alvarez

    Director of Partnerships, InnovateUS

  • Ben Ruxin

    Research Fellow

  • Matt Ryan

    Senior Fellow

  • Stephan Schmidt

    Digital Producer

  • Aruna Senthamaraikannan

    Web Developer

  • Deborah Stine

    Senior Fellow, InnovateUS

    Dr. Deborah D. Stine is a Senior Fellow with InnovateUS, a project of the Burnes Center for Social Change and the GovLab, where she develops…

  • Corliss Thompson

    Associate Dean of Graduate School of Education

  • Eileen Twiggs

    Strategic Advisor

  • Mariana Villamizar

    Designer at the Burnes Center for Social Change

  • Amanda Welsh

    Burnes Center Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Practice

  • John Wihbey

    Affiliated Faculty Fellow

    John P. Wihbey is an Affiliated Faculty Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change, Professor of Media & Technology at Northeastern University, a Co-Founder…

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