
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 -
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