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April 14, 2026/Q&A, Research

Sohyeon Hwang on the Challenge and Promise of Coordinating Governance Across Online Communities

Sohyeon Hwang, PhD is in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow. Sohyeon serves as a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University, where she studies community-based systems of governance in technologies, including decentralized social media and gig work. We sat down with Sohyeon to learn more about her recent work on inter-community governance processes, how she involves communities in her research, and strategies for overcoming some of the frictions that emerge from coordinating across decentralized social media communities.

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April 7, 2026/Q&A, Research

Alexandra Mateescu on Workers’ Experience of Technology, Worker Power, and Finding Hope in Challenging Times

Alexandra Mateescuis in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow at Data & Society, where she has worked for the last decade. In this Q&A, Alexandra shares her research about the gendered experience of the gig economy; how AI is an extension of existing tools of surveillance and control of workers; and how workers themselves are building power and challenging existing narratives about the promise and peril of technology. We also discuss Alexandra’s new co-authored paperon the underlying dynamics of power, control, and ideology that are shaping AI adoption in the workplace.

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January 13, 2026/Q&A, Research

AI and the Labor Market: Megan Rivera on How Policymakers Can Regulate AI to Create a Better Economy for All

Megan Rivera was a 2024-2025 Siegel Research Fellow and is a fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, where she studies the impact of AI on the labor market and economy, among other topics. We sat down with Megan to learn more about her recent policy brief, how she found her fit working in legislative politics, the potential for integrating worker voice into decision-making around AI, and how the Siegel Research Fellowship helped expand her horizons.

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January 12, 2026/News, Research

Meet Our 2025-2026 Siegel Research Fellows

Siegel Family Endowment is proud to announce the 2025–2026 cohort of Siegel Research Fellows. This cohort brings together a group of scholars and practitioners working at the intersections of technology, labor, and governance. Spanning economics, computer science, law, ethnography, public policy, and public interest technology, the fellows are united by a shared focus on power, participation, and accountability in technological systems.

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October 22, 2025/Q&A, Research

AI and the Search for Truth: Kylan Rutherford on Data Voids, Distrust, and the Pathways to Better Information

Kylan Rutherford is a Siegel Research Fellow at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, where he studies the complex relationship between social media content creators, platform consumers, and the platforms themselves. We sat down with Kylan to learn more about his research on how AI is affecting search, misinformation, and data voids.

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June 10, 2025/Reflections, Research

Independent Research for Improbably Good Futures: Reflections and Takeaways from Our 4th Annual Fellow Convening 

Each year, we bring together our Siegel fellow cohort for an annual convening. This year’s convening, which included 14 fellows, was held in New York City in mid-March. The timing of our gathering this year felt significant.

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June 3, 2025/From Our Grantees, Q&A, Research

The Human in the Loop: Pegah Moradi on Automation, Discretion, and the Future of Frontline Work

Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and workers.

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May 22, 2025/Q&A, Research

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Ruchika Joshi

Ruchika Joshi is a Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, where she develops technically rigorous solutions for industry […]

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December 10, 2024/Research

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

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December 3, 2024/Big Ideas, Research

Black-oriented EdTech and public interest technology: a framework for accessible and ethically designed technology for K-12 students

Read new Siegel In-House Research Fellow Symon Campbell’s latest publication in Journal of Integrated Global STEM analyzing three K-12 Black-oriented EdTech platforms developed by Black women—KaiXR, Reconstruction, and TunTimo—leverage public interest technology principles to address educational inequities and counter racial biases in mainstream EdTech.

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October 14, 2024/Research

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life Yvonne Eadon 

Yvonne Eadon is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky investigating feminized conspiracy theories and the gender dynamics within online communities that form around them, as well as how information institutions interface with and assist researchers with alternative or conspiratorial viewpoints. 

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