People

Berkman represents a network of faculty, fellows, students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

Karina Alexanyan

Karina Alexanyan’s research focuses on the Russian language social media landscape.

Matthew Blumberg

Matthew Blumberg is founder and executive director of GridRepublic, a nonprofit organization that uses volunteer computing to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research

Catherine Bracy

Catherine Bracy runs Code for America's international program. Previously, she served in many staff positions at the Berkman Center, most recently as administrative director.

James Burns

Trained in symbolic systems, mathematics, and theoretical economics at Stanford and Harvard, James Burns designs and develops new digital and intellectual frameworks for relational knowledge.

June Casey

June Casey is Librarian for Open Access and Scholarly Communication at the Harvard Law School Library and is a frequent collaborator on Berkman Center research projects.

John Clippinger

John Henry Clippinger was the Co-Director of The Law Lab at Harvard University, a multi-disciplinary project founded to research the role of social, neurological, and economic mechanisms on the role of law in facilitating cooperation and entrepreneurial innovation.

Ron Deibert

Ron Deibert (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He is a co-founder and Principal Investigator of the OpenNet Initiative.

Donatella Della Ratta

Donatella Della Ratta is PHD fellow at Copenhagen University (DK) and at the Danish Institute in Damascus (Syria). Her PHD work revolves around the politics of Syrian media industry, particularly TV drama.

Felipe Heusser

Felipe’s research aims to bridge the relationship of traditional Freedom of Information regulation with recent-born open data policies, highlighting how this relationship changes according to the habitat where these policies are embedded.

John Horton

John Horton is a labor economist and the staff economist at oDesk, an online labor market.

Joi Ito

Joichi Ito is an affiliate of the Berkman Center, and is the director of the MIT Media Lab.

Brian Keegan

Brian Keegan is a computational social scientist and post-doctoral fellow at Northeastern University. He is also an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His research examines how temporary online organizations emerge, stabilize, dissolve, and regenerate.

John Kelly

John Kelly is the founder and lead scientist of Morningside Analytics. His research blends Social Network Analysis, content analysis, and statistics to solve the problem of making complex online networks visible and understandable.

SJ Klein

Samuel Klein is a Wikipedian, a One Laptop per Child organizer, a mathematics and physics zealot, a clutch proofreader, and a long-time Bostonian.

Leora Kornfeld

Leora's research looks at the way digital, networked media affect communication, marketing, and the economy of the Internet.

Amanda Lenhart

Amanda Lenhart is the Senior Researcher, Director of Teens and Technology at the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, where she directs research on young adults, teens, children and families.

Yanni Alexander Loukissas

Yanni Alexander Loukissas is a designer and ethnographer with an interest in human-machine-environment relationships in creative and cooperative activities.

Andrew Lowenthal

Andrew Lowenthal is Co-Founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific human rights and environmental video project begun in 2005.

Mary Madden

Mary Madden is a Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is a nationally recognized expert on trends in social media use, online privacy management, and the impact of digital media on teens and parents.

Alice Marwick

Alice Marwick is a postdoctoral researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England and a research affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her work looks at online identity and consumer culture through lenses of privacy, surveillance, consumption, and celebrity.

Sean McDonald

Sean Martin McDonald is the CEO of FrontlineSMS's social enterprise, the kiwanja UK Community Interest Company.

Andres Monroy-Hernandez

Andrés Monroy-Hernández is a social computing researcher at Microsoft Research and an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His research focuses on the design and study of social media systems. In particular, he is interested in peer-production, creative online communities, remixing, and civic media.

Francesca Musiani

Francesca Musiani is the 2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (Washington, DC), and an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). She is completing her PhD at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech/CNRS (Paris, France), where she is a research engineer.

Helmi Noman

Helmi Noman is a Research Affiliate of the Berkman Center working on the OpenNet Initiative.

Kara Oehler

Kara Oehler is a 2011-2012 Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University. She is a radio documentary producer and media artist whose work over the past decade has focused upon pushing the boundaries of narrative journalism both on the air and across multiple platforms, combining investigative storytelling with participatory media, building new systems and opportunities for education and artistic practice.

Eric Osiakwan

Eric M.K Osiakwan is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA, www.gispa.org.gh). He is also a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Stanford University and Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program @ http://rdvp.org/fellows/2004-2005/erik-osiakwan/, Project Co-ordinator for UC Berkeley TIER Group in Ghana @ http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu and affiliate of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School @ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu

Robert Gerard Pietrusko

Robert Gerard Pietrusko is an engineer-designer focusing on the relationship between contemporary technology and spatial products.

Leah Plunkett

Leah A. Plunkett does research with the Student Privacy Initiative. She focuses on the role consent plays as schools transition student data to the "cloud."

Rafal Rohozinski

Rafal A. Rohozinski is a Research Fellow of CSP and Director of the Advanced Network Research Group (ANRG) and is a Principal Investigator of the OpenNet Initiative.

Jesse Shapins

Jesse Shapins is a media artist, theorist and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, and Wired, and been exhibited at MoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues.

James Slezak

James is a partner at Purpose. His work focuses on the application of online technology for collective action and behavior change.

Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark is a board member of the international student organisation Freeculture.org and the founder of the Harvard Free Culture group.

Benjamen Walker

Maxim Weinstein

Maxim Weinstein leads StopBadware, a former Berkman Center project.