Our Team
About our director
Beth Simone Noveck is the director at the Burnes Center for Social Change and a professor with joint appointments in Northeastern’s School of Law; the College of Social Science and Humanities; the College of Arts, Media and Design; and the College of Engineering. She also oversees a partner project, the Governance Lab.
Previously, Noveck served in the White House as the first United States deputy chief technology officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative under President Barack Obama. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for open government and Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed her to her Digital Council. She also currently serves as New Jersey’s first chief innovation officer.
For more about her publications and activities, read Beth’s full bio.
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Jill Abramson
Professor and Distinguished Senior Fellow -
Alexandra Anderson
Communications Intern -
Sofía Bosch Gómez
Postdoctoral Fellow -
Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza
Senior Fellow -
Kate Cummings
Research Fellow -
Fred DeJohn
Chief Financial Officer -
Anna Deng
Assistant Designer -
Anirudh Dinesh
Research Fellow -
Laura Forlano
Professor and Distinguished Senior Fellow -
Dane Gambrell
Research Fellow -
Caleb Gayle
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Henri Hammond-Paul
Research Fellow -
Seth Harris
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Hannah Hetzer
Research Fellow -
Neil Kleiman
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Orna Madigan
Graduate Research Assistant -
Anita McGahan
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Jonathan Metzl
Professor and Senior Fellow -
Jessica Silverman
Communications Assistant