Lori Adgate is the Financial Administrator, Institutes, supporting the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and Applied Social Media Lab teams.
Previously she worked in the HLS Finance Office supporting the faculty and the academic departments’ financial needs.
Cruz Brito is the Operations Administrator at the Applied Social Media Lab. He supports RSM and ASML operations and administration to ensure day-to-day functioning of the organization. Previously he worked supporting faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
He has a deep interest in higher education as well as the impact the internet and social media has on the world that he combines working at the Berkman Klein Center’s research initiative.
Shelby El Otmani (she/her) is a Program Coordinator for Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media. After completing a BA at Sarah Lawrence College, Shelby began a career in podcast production and radio journalism. She has been a producer at GBH News, New Hampshire Public Radio, and EF Education First, and her work has also been aired on WCAI, KCRW’s The Organist, and Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything. She is also the author of The Book of Superstitions: Black Cats, Yellow Flowers, Broken Mirrors, Cracked Sidewalks, and More Cultural Behaviors and Myths Explained, published by Cider Mill Press.
Shelby’s interest in the Berkman Klein Center’s work flourished after completing the center’s CopyrightX course in 2019. She has since been fascinated with learning more about how the Internet influences our beliefs and mental wellbeing, and how we can develop healthier social media habits on a global scale.
Outside of work, Shelby enjoys practicing martial arts (including Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Sanda, and Shuai Jiao), surfing, and listening to electronic music—especially techno.
Bao Kham Chau is a Cofounder/Director at Cornell Law Xenophobia Meter Project and a Visiting Fellow at CornellTech Digital Life Initiative and at the CornellTech Research Lab in Applied Law + Technology. He is interested in pursuing two related strands of research at the intersection of law and technology. Broadly speaking, he seeks to explore how the changing technological landscape affects the current legal regulatory frameworks (e.g., Internet and Artificial Intelligence governance). At the same time, Bao also investigates how to use computational text analysis techniques to help derive novel insights into the judiciary of developed, developing, and authoritarian states.
Before entering legal private practice, Bao worked as a (senior) software engineer for three successful startups in the Silicon Valley. He received his B.A. in Computer Science, History (honors), and Political Science from UC Berkeley, an A.M. in Regional Studies, East Asia from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Guzzo is a Brazilian designer and multimodal researcher interested in how interfaces mediate misinformation and bias. He draws on his background in filmmaking, education, and social activism to build socio-technical systems for collaboration and public imagination. At the Berkman Klein Center, he is a Program Manager for the Institute for Rebooting Social Media focusing on the program design for the RSM Assembly Fellowship.
Prior to the Institute, Guzzo was a Communication Manager for the Edgelands Institute and an educational designer for various social impact initiatives. He holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of California San Diego in Speculative Design and is a member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology, and Society Studies (LAVITS).
Rebecca is the Executive Director of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and Applied Social Media Lab within the Berkman Klein Center. She helps drive the initiative’s strategy and execution alongside Faculty Directors Jonathan Zittrain and James Mickens.
An experienced digital and communications strategist, Rebecca draws on her background across government and the private sector to guide the institute’s strategic planning, public outreach, and cross-organization collaboration.
Prior to the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, Rebecca was the Deputy Director of Digital Strategy at the White House where she oversaw the day-to-day of the White House and President Biden’s digital communications. Previously, she was the Rapid Response Director for then Vice President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and the Director of Politics at Bully Pulpit Interactive where she ran large-scale advertising programs and advised political organizations on how to effectively scale their digital operations.
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.
Joanne Cheung is a Lecturer at Stanford School of Engineering and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She previously served as a Director at the global design firm IDEO, leading its Racial Justice Impact Fund and a portfolio of social impact projects with partners including Project Drawdown, City of San José Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Knight Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During her Fellowship at the Berkman Klein Center in 2017–2018, she helped organize the Ethical Tech Working Group, which culminated in a recently published special issue of the Journal of Social Computing, “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in Wallpaper, Wired, Fast Company, and the New York Times Magazine. Joanne holds a M.Arch from Harvard Graduate School of Design, a MFA from Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and a BA from Dartmouth College, where she was a Davis UWC Scholar. www.joannekcheung.com
Antoinette (Toni) Gardner is the Director of Operations for Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media and Applied Social Media Lab.
A Licensed Master of Social Work, Toni is interested in how physical world problems are alleviated, exacerbated, and otherwise impacted by and within online spaces. Prior to joining BKC, she designed and coordinated multiple youth and young adult-centered programs related to technology and society, including Columbia University’s AI4ALL.
Toni received her MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work, working closely with Dr. Desmond Patton and the SAFElab. A Jersey-girl at heart, she received her BA in social work from Seton Hall University, where she also minored in musical theatre. She has performed in New York City and around the United States in various staged productions, most notably the National Tour of The Magic Treehouse: LIVE!. She hopes to continue to combine her social work and theatre backgrounds to find creative and effective solutions to social media’s most urgent problems.