John S. Bracken
Program Officer

Email: jbracken at macfound dot org

John S. Bracken is a program officer in the General Program. He works on the Foundation's media grantmaking program, a recently-completed initiative on intellectual property and the public domain, and other areas of special interest to the Foundation. He also chairs a Foundation committee on technology grantmaking. Previously, he worked at the Ford Foundation as a program associate on its portfolios in news media and media policy and technology. He has also worked for the Center for Media Education, where he analyzed the social impact of new technologies, and managed a series of media research projects for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. John is a 2009 fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago. He has a Masters Degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors Degree from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.