People Graduate Students Belén Saldías PhD candidate Maggie Hughes PhD candidate William Brannon PhD candidate Hang Jiang PhD candidate Hope Schroeder PhD candidate Suyash Fulay PhD candidate Wonjune Kang PhD candidate Cassandra Overney PhD candidate Daniel Kessler PhD candidate Elinor Poole-Dayan Masters candidate Shrestha Mohanty Masters candidate Michael Wong Masters candidate Zaria Jalan Masters candidate Faculty and Research Staff Professor Deb Roy Director & Principal Investigator Professor Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou Head of Translational Research & Practice 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 Cassandra Lee Research Designer Sam Brasil Postdoctoral Fellow Prototype Engineering Staff Dennis Jen Lead Software Engineer Maya Detwiller Prototype Manager Ali Klemencic Prototype Engineer Program and 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 Amar C. Bakshi Entrepreneur-in-Residence Marina Rakhilin Program Manager Artemisia Luk Design Lead Julia Matthews realtalk@MIT Platform Administrator Matthew McKenna realtalk@MIT Program Coordinator Leila Carter Administrative Assistant Katie Morrell Administrative Assistant MIT Faculty Affiliates Peter Fisher (Thomas A. Frank – 1977 – Professor of Physics, MIT) Maria Zuber (E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT) Michiel Bakker (Assistant Professor in Information Technology, MIT) Advisors Dr. Marshall Ganz (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard) Jonathan Haidt (Professor, New York University Stern School of Business) Martha Minow (Harvard Law School) Bruce Schneier (Harvard University) Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Cofounder & CTO, Inrupt; Prof. Post Tenure, CSAIL/MIT) Audrey Tang (Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan) Raney Aronson-Rath Journalist-in-Residence (FRONTLINE) Andrew Heyward (Walter Cronkite School, Arizona State University) Yasmin Green (Google Jigsaw) Glenn Otis Brown (Texas Tribune Board) Claudia Chwalisz (DemocracyNext) Vivian Schiller (The Aspen Institute) Wes Chow (Filament) Alex Kelly Berman (Cortico) Alumni Alex Siegenfeld PhD 2022 Amy Johnson Administrative Assistant Professor Andrea Louise Campbell Advisor (MIT Dept. Political Science) Anneli Woolf PhD 2020, Research Scientist Becky Lin RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Born Bi-Kim RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Brian Bedol Advisor Bridgit Mendler PhD candidate Professor Ceasar McDowell Associate Director, May 2021 – March 2023 Professor David Rand Advisor (MIT Sloan & Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Debby Goldberg Advisor, Development and Strategy (Cortico) Elena Sapora realtalk@MIT Program Lead Eric Chu PhD 2022 Grey Black RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 John Flynn Masters candidate Joshua Flax Advisor JP Maheu Advisor Kayla Burt realtalk@MIT Program Administrator Lorena Tovar Project Coordinator Magdalena Ayerra RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Maridena Rojas RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Matt Nay Masters 2024 Nabeel Gillani PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Associate Naana Obeng-Marnu Masters 2024, Project Analyst Rukun Zhang PhD candidate Sarah Ballinger Head of Program Management Shayne Longpre PhD candidate 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 In Memory Allen Gorin Senior Advisor
