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 Cassandra Lee Masters candidate Naana Obeng-Marnu Masters candidate Elinor Poole-Dayan Masters candidate Shrestha Mohanty Masters candidate Michael Wong Masters candidate Matt Nay 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 Sam Brasil Postdoctoral Fellow Amar C. Bakshi Entrepreneur-in-Residence Prototype Engineering Staff Dennis Jen Lead Software Engineer Maya Detwiller Prototype Manager 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 Elena Sapora Real Talk Lead Artemisia Luk Design Lead Marina Rakhilin Program Manager Matthew McKenna Sr. Administrative Assistant Leila Carter Administrative Assistant Advisors Dr. Marshall Ganz Senior Advisor (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard) Jonathan Haidt Senior Advisor (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) Peter Fisher Senior Advisor (Thomas A. Frank – 1977 – Professor of Physics, MIT) Bruce Schneier Senior Advisor (Harvard University) Sir Tim Berners-Lee Senior Advisor (Cofounder & CTO, Inrupt; Prof. Post Tenure, CSAIL/MIT) Raney Aronson-Rath Journalist-in-Residence Andrew Heyward Senior Advisor Debby Goldberg Senior Advisor, Development and Strategy (Cortico) Joshua Flax Senior Advisor 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) Alumni Alex Siegenfeld PhD 2022 Amy Johnson Administrative Assistant Professor Andrea Louise Campbell Senior 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 Bridgit Mendler PhD candidate Professor David Rand Senior Advisor (MIT Sloan & Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Eric Chu PhD 2022 Grey Black RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 John Flynn Masters candidate Lorena Tovar Project Coordinator Magdalena Ayerra RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Maridena Rojas RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Nabeel Gillani PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Associate Professor Ceasar McDowell Associate Director, May 2021 – March 2023 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 Wes Chow Head of Engineering In Memory Allen Gorin Senior Advisor