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  1. Manon Revel

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    Manon is an Employee Fellow at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media. She graduated from MIT in 2023 with a PhD in Social and Engineering Systems and Statistics.

    Her research focuses on reviving democratic governance online and offline, and understanding information disorders. Leveraging mathematical models, statistical tools and political philosophy theories, she investigates new ways to organize collectively and share information in order to update how we think and do democracy.

    She is also a fellow at the Responsible AI Institute and co-leads the Civic Participation working group for the Mechanism Design for Social Good organization. When not worrying about democracy, she plays basketball or windsurfs.

    Manon graduated from Ecole Central Paris with a B.S. in Engineering, and from MIT with an M.S. in Technology and Policy. She was also a Doctoral Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Innovations at the Harvard Kennedy School and worked at Bell Labs, Palantir and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

  2. Nadah Feteih

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    Nadah Feteih is an Employee Fellow at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media. She holds B.S and M.S degrees from UC San Diego in Computer Science with a focus on systems and security. Her background is in privacy and trust & safety, working most recently as a Software Engineer at Meta on Messenger Privacy and Instagram Privacy teams. She was promoted to Senior Software Engineer within two years and was involved in various integrity workstreams at the company, escalating content moderation issues and bringing awareness to bias in product features and enforcement systems.

    She is also passionate about building and supporting communities as the founder of Muslim Women in Tech and through her prior work at Meta in consulting and building features for the Faith team. She is currently a Tech Policy Fellow with the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and is driven to use her technical expertise and expand her knowledge in ethics, policy, and integrity through her work at RSM. In her free time, you’ll find Nadah outdoors: hiking, running, or climbing mountains.

  3. Lisa Austin

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    Lisa Austin is a Professor and Chair in Law and Technology at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and recently served as an Associate Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI). In addition to her legal training, Lisa holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

    Her research focuses on privacy law, property law and legal theory, with an emphasis on the impacts of new technologies, the nature of the rule of law, and the boundaries between what the law considers private and public. Her privacy work has been cited numerous times by Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. In recognition of her influence on public policy, in 2017 she was one of the inaugural winners of the University of Toronto’s President Impact Award. At the University of Toronto, she has been a leader in creating an interdisciplinary community around privacy issues. She co-founded the IT3 Lab, a 3-year project that focused on innovative interdisciplinary research in law and engineering to make digital technologies more transparent and accountable.

    Her current research focuses on moving past privacy law to define and defend a broader idea of “data governance”, and to understand what kind of regulatory infrastructure we need in order to bring about the just and fair conditions of social legibility. She is particularly interested in examining the potential role of data intermediaries in mediating data access between parties in the data ecosystem, and their place in an overall theory of data governance.

    Twitter: @Lisa_M_Austin

  4. Meredith D. Clark

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    Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies, and director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change at Northeastern University.

    Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power. Her first book, We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counter-Narratives, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Her research has been published in Communication and the Public; Communication, Culture & Critique; Electronic News; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator; Journal of Social Media in Society; New Media & Society; and Social Movement Studies.

    Clark is serving a four-year board leadership in the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), and is an advisory board member of the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies at NYU. She’s committed to the Lordeian practice of self-preservation as political warfare, and actively practices what Robin D.G. Kelley calls “radical imagination” – the view of seeing the world not as it is, but as it could be.

    Southern by the grace of God, Meredith now makes her home in JP with her husband, Willie, and their dog, Foster.

    Twitter: @MeredithDClark

  5. Swati Srivastava

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    Swati Srivastava is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. She received her doctorate in political science from Northwestern University, where she held affiliations with the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and the Center for Legal Studies. She is the author of Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics (Cambridge University Press 2022) and numerous articles in top political science journals, including International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Perspectives on Politics, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Relations.

    Her research has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and International Studies Association. Srivastava’s specific research interests concern private power in global governance, especially public-private relations between governments, corporations, and NGOs. She has also contributed to research on international responsibility, including corporate responsibility and structural justice, social construction, and historical methods.

    Her latest research evaluates the political power and responsibility of Big Tech companies and tracks regulation in an international comparative context. Srivastava uses original archival and interview data along with content analysis and comparative historical analysis. At Purdue, Srivastava has been recognized with the highest university and college-wide research and teaching awards. She teaches undergraduate courses in political science on international relations and graduate courses on international relations and global non-state actors. She is a faculty affiliate with the Cornerstone integrated liberal arts program that focuses on transformative texts and oral communication. Finally, she is the founder and director of an undergraduate research lab that examines the politics of Big Tech algorithmic governance.

    Twitter: @swatisrivast

  6. June Okal

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    June is an Employee Fellow at Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM). She collaborates closely with the Institute and BKC personnel to study how intermediary liability is currently construed as a legal/technical/social construct, examining different social networks and different legal/social frameworks from different countries, primarily across Sub Saharan Africa. 

    June is a Technology, Media and Telecommunications lawyer qualified in Kenya with working experience supporting global businesses across Sub Saharan Africa including Meta (Formerly Facebook), American Tower Corporation and Google. Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, Patent and Trademark Agent. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) Degree in Intellectual Property and Technology from the American University’s Washington College of Law, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree from the University of Nairobi and Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law. 

    As a Fellow at ARTICLE 19, the Internet Governance Lab and Kenya ICT Action Network, June has undertaken extensive legal and policy research on Regulatory Sandboxes, Intermediary Liability, Domain Name System (DNS) Abuse, Freedom of Expression and Content Moderation, Disinformation, FinTech and Data Protection and Privacy. 

    Recognized as one of Africa’s Top 50 Individuals Leading in Legal Innovation and Africa’s Leading Women in Legal Innovation, June the person thoroughly enjoys Kenyan tea, lemon and honey on the side, is a legendary Monopoly buff, and is low-key addicted to the timeless, Grey’s Anatomy.

  7. Joanne Armitage

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    Joanne Armitage is a Visiting Scholar at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society where she contributes to The Institute for Rebooting Social Media. Her research at the Institute focuses on how social media technologies can be re-imagined through low, slow and no technology practices. 

    Joanne is a live coder, digital artist and creative technologist as well as Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Leeds, UK.  She holds the Daphne Oram Award for Digital Innovation and the Francis Chagrin Award and has worked extensively as a creative sound and media practitioner, developing bespoke installations, commissions and performances with artists across the globe. Through her research, she explores digital technology through practice and engagement with communities and activists. She employs participatory, digital and empirical methods to examine technologies in the context of inequality, sustainability and environmental justice. With this, she works with expert and non-expert groups to explore how technologies facilitate different practices and political agency. She is Principal Investigator of the projects Sustainable Marking for Feminist Action (2020–2022) and Equally Digital, Digitally Equal (2020–2021). 

    From 2019–2020 she completed her postdoctoral work in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Here she contributed to the AirKit proof of concept project as part of the Citizen Sense research group. She is affiliated with the Planetary Praxisresearch group at the University of Cambridge and the Digital Cultures research group at the University of Leeds.

    Twitter: @joannnne

  8. Ibtissam Bouachrine

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    Ibtissam Bouachrine is a full professor at Smith College. Trained as a medievalist, her scholarship and teaching focus on the medieval and modern societies of Iberia, North Africa, and the Middle East. She is the author of two books on women and gender in Muslim-majority countries, Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique (2014) and Anthem of Misogyny (forthcoming 2022).

    Her current research interest lies at the intersection of technology, ethics, law, and women’s rights in Muslim-majority contexts. As a visiting scholar at the Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media, she will research a book project tentatively titled, The Digital Lives of Muslim Women.

    Bouachrine has been awarded grants and fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University.

    She has held a number of administrative roles at Smith, including Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Director of the Middle East Studies Program, and co-Director of the Women’s Education Concentration. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism and the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.

  9. Jabari Evans

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    Dr. Jabari Evans is an Assistant Professor of Race and Media at the University of South Carolina in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC). His research focuses on the subcultures that urban youth and young adults of color develop and inhabit to understand their social environments, identity development and pursue their professional aspirations. He generally explores strategies these youth use for self-expression on social media platforms as well as other digital media tools and technologies. His forthcoming book project, Hip-Hop Civics (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming) centers on a Hip-Hop Based Education program in Chicago Public Schools and argues for rap song making’s utility for fostering connected learning in the formal classroom. Dr. Evans’ research has been recognized for awards by the International Communication Association, published in the Journal of Global Hip Hop Studies, Journal for Media Literacy Education and has been covered by the Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Rolling Out Magazine, Ebony Magazine and Chicago Crain’s Business. He earned his PhD at Northwestern University’s School of Communication.

     

    Twitter: @naledgesince82

  10. Gregory Gondwe

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    Gregory Gondwe is an Assistant Professor of Journalism studies at California State University – San Bernardino. He researches contemporary media ecosystems and their implications on society. His scholarly work interrogates the effects of persuasive multimedia media messages across cultural and geographical boundaries. Gregory is joining Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media to explore how social media influencers in Sub-Saharan Africa are ‘decolonizing and outsmarting’ digital media platforms. In this study, he examines questions of digital governance, surveillance, censorship, algorithms, and resistance. Some of his other works include cross-national studies on mis/disinformation in sub-Saharan Africa as they relate to gender, geo-location, age, and media literacy. Gregory received education from the University of Colorado – Boulder, USA; University of Oregon, USA; and St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT). Previously, he served as a priest student where he studied philosophy and theology. His work experience includes serving as a journalist, a teacher, and a researcher both in the US and Africa.