People Graduate Students Belén Saldías PhD candidate Maggie Hughes PhD candidate William Brannon PhD candidate Hang Jiang PhD candidate Hope Schroeder PhD candidate Suyash Fulay PhD candidate Wonjune Kang PhD candidate Cassandra Overney PhD candidate Daniel Kessler PhD candidate Elinor Poole-Dayan Masters candidate Shrestha Mohanty Masters candidate Michael Wong Masters candidate Zaria Jalan Masters candidate Faculty and Research Staff Professor Deb Roy Director & Principal Investigator Professor Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou Head of Translational Research Professor Katherine Cramer Faculty (University of Wisconsin-Madison & MIT Media Lab) Brandon Roy Head of Applied Research Doug Beeferman Research Engineer Jad Kabbara Research Scientist Cassandra Lee Research Designer Sam Brasil Postdoctoral Fellow Prototype Engineering Staff Dennis Jen Lead Software Engineer Maya Detwiller Prototype Manager Ali Klemencic Prototype Engineer Program and Administrative Staff Russell Stevens Head of Programs (co-founder Cortico) Heather Pierce Head of Operations and Administration Lorrie LeJeune Program Strategist Ellen Hoffman Communications Strategist Amar C. Bakshi Entrepreneur-in-Residence Marina Rakhilin Program Manager Kayla Burt realtalk@MIT Program Administrator Julia Matthews realtalk@MIT Platform Administrator Artemisia Luk Design Lead Matthew McKenna Sr. Administrative Assistant Leila Carter Administrative Assistant Katie Morrell Administrative Assistant MIT Faculty Affiliates Peter Fisher Senior Advisor (Thomas A. Frank – 1977 – Professor of Physics, MIT) Maria Zuber Senior Advisor (E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT) Advisors Dr. Marshall Ganz Senior Advisor (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard) Jonathan Haidt Senior Advisor (Professor, New York University Stern School of Business) Martha Minow Senior Advisor (Harvard Law School) Bruce Schneier Senior Advisor (Harvard University) Sir Tim Berners-Lee Senior Advisor (Cofounder & CTO, Inrupt; Prof. Post Tenure, CSAIL/MIT) Raney Aronson-Rath Journalist-in-Residence Andrew Heyward Senior Advisor Debby Goldberg Senior Advisor, Development and Strategy (Cortico) Yasmin Green Senior Advisor Brian Bedol Senior Advisor Glenn Otis Brown Senior Advisor (Texas Tribune) Claudia Chwalisz Senior Advisor (DemocracyNext) JP Maheu Senior Advisor (Twitter) Vivian Schiller Senior Advisor (The Aspen Institute) Alex Kelly Berman Advisor (Cortico) Alumni Alex Siegenfeld PhD 2022 Amy Johnson Administrative Assistant Professor Andrea Louise Campbell Senior Advisor (MIT Dept. Political Science) Anneli Woolf PhD 2020, Research Scientist Becky Lin RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Born Bi-Kim RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Bridgit Mendler PhD candidate Professor Ceasar McDowell Associate Director, May 2021 – March 2023 Professor David Rand Senior Advisor (MIT Sloan & Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Elena Sapora realtalk@MIT Program Lead Eric Chu PhD 2022 Grey Black RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 John Flynn Masters candidate Joshua Flax Senior Advisor Lorena Tovar Project Coordinator Magdalena Ayerra RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Maridena Rojas RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Matt Nay Masters candidate Nabeel Gillani PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Associate Naana Obeng-Marnu Project Analyst Rukun Zhang PhD candidate Sarah Ballinger Head of Program Management Shayne Longpre PhD candidate Sinclair Target Research Software Engineer Thanh Mai Phan Research Software Engineer Tibisay Zea RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22 Valinda Chan RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23 Wes Chow Head of Engineering In Memory Allen Gorin Senior Advisor
