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Institute Founding team

Rishi Jaitly

Rishi Jaitly
Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Humanities, and Professor of Practice

 

Sylvester Johnson

Sylvester Johnson
Associate Vice Provost for Public Interest Technology, and Founding Director of the Center for Humanities

 

Hunter Greshem

Hunter Greshem
Associate Director, Center for Humanities

 

Brad Soucy

Brad Soucy
Senior Director, Communications and Marketing for Principal Partnerships

 

Honorary Advisors 

Prashanth Chandrasekar

Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO, Stack Overflow
San Antonio, Texas

 

Jonathan Harley

Jonathan Harley
Head of Global Partnerships, Canva
Sydney, Australia

 

Scott Hartley

Scott Hartley
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Everywhere Ventures
Author, “The Fuzzy and the Techie”

Los Angeles, California

 

Jennifer Pahlka

Jen Pahlka
Founder, Code for America
Author, “Recoding America”

Oakland, California

 

Allen Lau

Allen Lau
Co-Founder and Former CEO, Wattpad
Founding Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures

Toronto, Canada

 

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter
CEO, New America
Princeton, New Jersey

 

Michael Slaby

Michael Slaby
Former CTO, Obama for America
Author, “For All The People”

Rhinebeck, New York

Traiban Shorters

Trabian Shorters
Founder and CEO, BMe Community
Miami, Florida

 

 

Faculty Advisors


Distinguished Advisor

Jonathan Harley


Tim Kircher
Founder of Humanities Watch and
H. Curt and Patricia S. Hege Professor of History at Guilford College
Greensboro, North Carolina