Meet the team
Institute team

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

Paul Quigley
Director of the Center for Humanities, Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, and James I. Robertson, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War History

Brad Soucy
Senior Director, Communications and Marketing for Principal Partnerships
Honorary Advisors

Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO, Stack Overflow
San Antonio, Texas

Hunter Greshem
Senior Director of Advancement Communications and Donor Relations, Radford University

Jonathan Harley
Head of Global Partnerships, Canva
Sydney, Australia

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

Sylvester Johnson
Founding CEO, Corporation for Public Interest Technology, Kluge Chair in Technology and Society, Kluge Center and Professor of Black Studies, Northwestern University

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

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

Colonel Chris Mayer
Associate Dean for Strategy and Initiatives, United States Military Academy at West Point
West Point, New York

Robert Newman
President Emeritus, National Humanities Center
Durham, North Carolina

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

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

Trabian Shorters
Founder and CEO, BMe Community
Miami, Florida
Faculty Advisors
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Distinguished Advisor

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