Emerging leaders in technology have the potential to shape better solutions and share needed and unique perspectives, but they often lack support to contribute their ideas and shift public narratives. An initiative of The OpEd Project, supported by MacArthur, is helping them make an impact.
Twenty notable leaders and thinkers working at the intersection of technology and society have been selected for the second Public Voices Fellowship on Technology in the Public Interest. In convenings and with the guidance of journalist coaches, the fellows will develop leadership skills and build knowledge to contribute different perspectives, voices, and ideas to shape discourse on technology and the public good.
The Public Voices Fellows are:
- Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
- Oni Blackstock, Founder and Executive Director, Health Justice
- Lauren Chambers, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Information
- Danielle Davis, Director of Technology Policy, Joint Center
- Alli Finn, Senior Partnerships & Strategy Lead, AI Now Institute
- JP Flores, PhD Candidate, Department of Genetics at UNC Chapel Hill
- Rosanna Garcia, Director of the Innovation Studio at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- David Hatami, Project Manager, Coalfire
- Krystal Kauffman, Research Fellow, The Distributed AI Research Institute
- Mallory Knodel, Founder, Social Web Foundation
- Catherine Nakalembe, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland; Founder, The Xylem Institute
- Erezi Ogbo-Gebhardt, Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University
- Chinasa T. Okolo, Founder and Scientific Director, Technēcultură
- Timi Paul Olagunju, Founder, AI Literacy Foundation
- Maria Olujic, Anthropologist & Writer; Former Deputy Minister of Science & Technology, Croatia (Wartime Cabinet)
- Nicole Ozer, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, UC Law San Francisco
- Andrew Thaler, Consultant, Blackbeard Biologic: Science and Environmental Advisors
- Bridget Todd, Podcast Host and Producer, Berkman Klein Center
- Julie Wenah, Chairwoman, Digital Civil Rights Coalition
- Faith Wilson, Journalist and Researcher, Hyattsville Life & Times; Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
