Cohort Year 2022-2023

From Oscilloscopes to AI Policy: Building a Foundation of Public AI Understanding with Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman, a Siegel Fellow from 2022 to 2024, serves as an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, focusing on the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. They recently sat down with Siegel Emerging Tech Advisor Eryk Salvaggio to discuss their journey and work on AI primers, literacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem change

Tiago Ventura

Tiago Ventura is a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland in 2022. In Fall 2023, he will join the McCourt School of Public Policy…

Kathryn Zickuhr

Kathryn Zickuhr is a senior policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, supporting the labor market program’s work on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well…

Ranjit Singh

Ranjit Singh is a senior researcher at Data & Society, focused on qualitative research for the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab (AIMLab). With a particular focus on research equity, he also helps guide research ethics at the Data & Society Research…

Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman is an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, where they work at the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. Eleanor is a computer scientist by training invested in bridging the gap between academic research…

Ruth Elisabeth Appel

Ruth Appel is a PhD Candidate at Stanford University who combines insights and methods from psychology, political science and computer science to develop and evaluate evidence-based interventions to promote the common good. She is particularly passionate about preventing the spread…

Brandi Geurkink

Brandi Geurkink is a Senior Policy Fellow at Mozilla, the global nonprofit behind Firefox. At Mozilla, Brandi comes up with new ways to hold the internet’s biggest platforms accountable for algorithms, online advertising, privacy, and other issues. Brandi is the…

Sophie Kelmenson

Sophie Kelmenson is a postdoctoral fellow in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Siegel Family Endowment Research Fellow. Her research and publications examine opportunities for equitable development, often in the context…

Nathan Matias

Dr. J. Nathan Matias (@natematias ) organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. A Guatemalan-American, Nathan is an assistant professor in the Cornell University Department of Communication and field member in Information Science. Nathan is a 2022-23…

Nanditha Narayanamoorthy

Nanditha Narayanamoorthy (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work draws from a Humanities-based framework to understand the relationship between technology and democracy…