Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet whose poems have been published in Best American Poetry, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Brenda is Associate Professor of English and MFA at Rutgers University-Newark.
Edward Gibson
Edward Gibson is an MIT professor whose background is in mathematics and computer science. Currently, Edward Gibson researches human language, and more importantly, how people represent and process language above the word level.
Finale Doshi-Velez
Finale Doshi-Velez is an assistant professor in Computer Science at Harvard. She completed her PhD at MIT and her postdoc at Harvard Medical School. She was a 2007 Marshall Scholar at the University of Cambridge and selected as one of AAAI's 2013 "AI Top 10 to Watch."
Justin Curtis
Justin Curtis is a sophomore at Harvard College. After becoming interested in public policy after interning for his local congresswoman, Justin continues to explore the intersection of American history and politics at Harvard in his involvement with the Harvard Political Review and Harvard College Democracy Matters.
Mark Penn
Mark Penn is Managing Partner and President of the Stagwell Group. In addition to serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft, Mark Penn has served as both White House Pollster and chief strategist to Hillary Clinton.
Michael Smith
Michael Smith is a professor from Carnegie Mellon University. As Professor of Information Systems and Marketing and the Co-Director of the Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA) at CMU, Michael Smith’s research uses econometric techniques to analyze firm and consumer behavior in markets for digital information and digital media products.
Philippe Noël
Philippe Noël is currently a freshman at Harvard College. In his junior year of high school, he started researching the process of biomethanation and how it can be used as a sustainable energy source.