Research Team

Leadership

Hannah Davis

Hannah Davis

Day 1 on March 25, 2020

Hannah is a machine learning artist and has a background in data analysis and machine learning, with a focus on modeling worldviews, generative art and music, and tools for countering bias in machine learning datasets. She is a public speaker and has spoken at the Library of Congress, Bell Labs, Eyeo Festival, the European Association for Computational Linguistics, and others.

Hannah Wei

Hannah Wei

Day 1 on March 11, 2020

Hannah Wei has a background in cognitive science and computer science. Her work focuses on the intersection of global communities, frontier technology and user-centered design. She has led product design and research initiatives on the ground in Indonesia, Ghana, and Taiwan, and has worked with teams at Facebook, MIT Media Labs, Harvard Innovation Labs.

Gina Assaf

Gina Assaf

Day 1 on March 20, 2020

Gina Assaf is an independent digital strategist, researcher, and designer for the humanitarian and global aid sector, and the co-founder and managing director of a digital design & development consulting organization. She has worked for organizations such as the United Nations, IRC, World Bank, USAID contractors, Intuit, and GitHub.

Dr. Athena Akrami

Dr. Athena Akrami

Day 1 on March 17, 2020

Dr. Akrami is a faculty member at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, in University College London, where she runs a large neuroscience laboratory studying learning and memory in rodents, human, and computational models. She has more than 15 years of experience in scientific research and publications, project managements, and international collaborations.

Lisa McCorkell

Lisa McCorkell

Day 1 on March 14, 2020

Lisa McCorkell has a Masters in Public Policy from UC Berkeley and a BA in Political Science from UCLA. Her background is in public policy, public health, advocacy, writing, and research.


Contributors

Alison Cohen

Alison Cohen

Current Contributor

Alison Cohen is an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. She conducts community-driven, policy-relevant applied epidemiology research to document health inequities and identify and evaluate interventions that could improve health and reduce inequities. She has a PhD in epidemiology and a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology and biostatistics from UC Berkeley and a AB in community health and education studies from Brown University.

Anisha Sekar

Anisha Sekar

Day 1 on June 7, 2020

Anisha Sekar is a fintech entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in product management, user experience, and strategy. She received her BA in computer science from Brown University with a focus on applied mathematics and statistics. Her analysis has been cited in Reuters, the Washington Post, Marketplace and more.

Asmae

Asmae

Current Contributor
Elisabeth Stelson

Elisabeth Stelson

Day 1 on March 23, 2020

Elisabeth Stelson is a licensed social worker and PhD Candidate in Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Beth’s research focuses on the occupational health of social and health services workforces, vicarious trauma, and intimate partner violence.

Giorgia Lupi

Giorgia Lupi

Current Contributor

Giorgia is an information designer. She is a Partner at Pentagram in New York. After receiving her master’s degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York.

Girish

Girish

Current Contributor
Dr. Jared Austin

Dr. Jared Austin

Current Contributor
Jared Mercier

Jared Mercier

Current Contributor
JD Davids

JD Davids

Current Contributor
Jerry

Jerry

Day 1 on March 5, 2020
Letícia Soares

Letícia Soares

Day 1 on April 12 2020

Letícia Soares is a Brazilian scientist and disability activist with a Masters in Ecology and a PhD in Biology. Her scientific background is in ecology, evolution and epidemiology of infectious diseases and she has developed and published research in human and wildlife diseases. She also has extensive training and experience in teaching Biological Sciences.

Lucia

Lucia

Current Contributor
Marie

Marie

Current Contributor
Margaret O’Hara

Margaret O’Hara

Current Contributor
Matthew

Matthew

Current Contributor
Megan

Megan

Day 1 on March 19, 2020

Dr. Megan Fitzgerald holds a PhD in Neuroscience and has a background in human neuroanatomy, developmental neuroscience, and stem cell research. She became ill with COVID in March of 2020.

Dr. Mel Symeonides

Dr. Mel Symeonides

Day 1 on March 20, 2020

Dr. Symeonides is a faculty scientist at the University of Vermont, USA. He is conducting wet lab research, primarily in the fields of virology and immunology, in the context of HIV-1 and Rotavirus. He is also engaged in educating and training early career (undergraduate and graduate level) scientists, both through lecturing as well as in the research lab.

Michael

Michael

Current Contributor
Myra

Myra

Current Contributor
Nisa Malli

Nisa Malli

Day 1 on March 23, 2020
Rachel Robles

Rachel Robles

Day 1 on March 26, 2020

Rachel is a Cornell University graduate with a degree in Operations Research Engineering and 6 years of experience working in sales strategy. She has skills in building data pipelines for the purposes of automation and reporting.

Dr. Ryan Low

Dr. Ryan Low

Current Contributor
Dr. Signe Redfield

Dr. Signe Redfield

Current Contributor

Dr. Redfield received her Ph.D. and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, and a BA in General Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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Teresa Akintonwa

Teresa Akintonwa

Current Contributor

Dr. Yochai Re’em

Dr. Yochai Re’em

Current Contributor

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