People Graduate Students Belén Saldías PhD candidate Maggie Hughes PhD candidate William Brannon PhD candidate Hang Jiang PhD candidate Hope Schroeder PhD candidate Shayne Longpre PhD candidate Suyash Fulay PhD candidate Wonjune Kang PhD candidate Cassandra Overney PhD candidate Cassandra Lee Masters candidate Daniel Kessler Masters candidate Naana Obeng-Marnu Masters candidate Elinor Poole-Dayan Masters candidate Shrestha Mohanty Masters candidate Michael Wong Masters candidate Matt Nay Masters candidate John Flynn Masters candidate Faculty and Research Scientists Professor Deb Roy Director & Principal Investigator Professor Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou Head of Translational Research Professor Katherine Cramer Faculty (University of Wisconsin-Madison & MIT Media Lab) Brandon Roy Head of Applied Research Doug Beeferman Research Engineer Jad Kabbara Research Scientist Prototype Engineering Staff Wes Chow Head of Engineering Dennis Jen Lead Software Engineer Artemisia Luk Design Lead Administrative Staff Russell Stevens Head of Programs (co-founder Cortico) Heather Pierce Head of Operations and Administration Lorrie LeJeune Program Strategist Ellen Hoffman Communications Strategist Lorena Tovar Project Coordinator Matthew McKenna Sr. Administrative Assistant Amy Johnson Administrative Assistant Leila Carter Administrative Assistant Advisors Allen Gorin Senior Advisor Dr. Marshall Ganz Senior Advisor (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard) Jonathan Haidt Professor, New York University Stern School of Business Martha Minow Senior Advisor (Harvard Law School) Maria Zuber Senior Advisor (E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT) Sir Tim Berners-Lee Senior Advisor (Cofounder & CTO, Inrupt; Prof. Post Tenure, CSAIL/MIT) Raney Aronson-Rath Journalist-in-Residence Professor Andrea Louise Campbell Senior Advisor (MIT Dept. Political Science) Professor David Rand Senior Advisor (MIT Sloan & Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Andrew Heyward Senior Advisor Debby Goldberg Senior Advisor, Development and Strategy (Cortico) Brian Bedol Senior Advisor Glenn Otis Brown Senior Advisor (Texas Tribune) JP Maheu Senior Advisor (Twitter) Vivian Schiller Senior Advisor (The Aspen Institute) Alex Kelly Berman Advisor (Cortico) Joshua Flax Senior Advisor Alumni Alex Siegenfeld PhD 2022 Anneli Woolf PhD 2020, Research Scientist Becky Lin RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Born Bi-Kim RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Bridgit Mendler PhD candidate Eric Chu PhD 2022 Grey Black RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Magdalena Ayerra RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Maridena Rojas RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Nabeel Gillani PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Associate Professor of the Practice Ceasar McDowell Associate Director, May 2021 – March 2023 Rukun Zhang PhD candidate Sarah Ballinger Head of Program Management Sinclair Target Research Software Engineer Thanh Mai Phan Research Software Engineer Tibisay Zea RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Valinda Chan RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23
