Meet the team
Institute Founding team
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Rishi Jaitly
Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Humanities, and Professor of Practice
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Sylvester Johnson
Associate Vice Provost for Public Interest Technology, and Founding Director of the Center for Humanities
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Hunter Greshem
Associate Director, Center for Humanities
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Brad Soucy
Senior Director, Communications and Marketing for Principal Partnerships
Honorary Advisors
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Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO, Stack Overflow
San Antonio, Texas
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Jonathan Harley
Head of Global Partnerships, Canva
Sydney, Australia
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Scott Hartley
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Everywhere Ventures
Author, “The Fuzzy and the Techie”
Los Angeles, California
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Jen Pahlka
Founder, Code for America
Author, “Recoding America”
Oakland, California
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Allen Lau
Co-Founder and Former CEO, Wattpad
Founding Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures
Toronto, Canada
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
CEO, New America
Princeton, New Jersey
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Michael Slaby
Former CTO, Obama for America
Author, “For All The People”
Rhinebeck, New York
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Trabian Shorters
Founder and CEO, BMe Community
Miami, Florida
Faculty Advisors
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Distinguished Advisor
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Tim Kircher
Founder of Humanities Watch and
H. Curt and Patricia S. Hege Professor of History at Guilford College
Greensboro, North Carolina