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Advisors and Team

From across disciplines… and media

Our Leadership

Our People

Steven Rosenbaum

Executive Director

The Sustainable Media Center

Esther Dyson

Advisor

Founder: Wellville

Duarte Geraldino

Advisor

Apple News

Anya Schiffrin

Advisor

Columbia University, OSF

Eric Gertler

Advisor

Exec. Chair, U.S. News & World Report; Ulysses Ventures

Dror Shimshowitz

Advisor

Shopify, Director of Product

Tara Bahl

Advisor

Content Strategy and Programming at Paramount+

Julie Scelfo

Advisor

Journalist, Media Ecologist and Executive Director, Get Media Savvy,

Tobacco Brown

Advisor

Social and Public Artist. TED Speaker

Karen Wickre

Advisor

Connector and Communicator

Lara Stein

Advisor

CEO Boma Global

Kevin Wassong

Advisor

Managing Partner | INTEG:Advisors

Ricardo Miranda

Advisor

Assoc Prof, Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY

Dean Lukasiewicz

Advisor

Hofstra University School of Communication

BRADLEY HOROWITZ

Advisor

Gary Knell

Advisor

Ann Kirschner

Advisor

Director/CUNY/Arizona State University/Author

Jon Vein

Advisor

Serial entrepreneur, Ent. exec and Civic leader

Bob Garfield

Advisor

Host: Bully Pulpit, fmr Host On The Media

Kurt Andersen

Advisor

Author: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

Avalon Fenster

Advisor

Youth Activist / TikTok Creator

Evan Shapiro

Advisor

eShap TV

David S.Rose

Adivsor

Principal, Rose Tech Ventures

Jon Miller

Advisor

CEO, Integrated Media Co.

Steve Strauss

Advisor

Princeton

Greg Morriset

Advisor

Dean and Provost, Cornell Tech

Uri Hasson

Advisor

Professor of Psychology and Neuro Science / Princeton

Jason E. Klein

Advisor

Founder, On Grid Ventures President, HBS Alumni Angels

Mark Lieberman

Advisor

Media & Technology | Private Equity & Venture Managing Mbr Abel Media & Tech LLC

Andy Sernovitz

Advisor

Social-impact Entrepreneur

Rus Sarnoff

Advisor

JACLYN CORINN

Advisor

Student at Harvard University

Baratunde Thurston

Advisor

Executive Producer & Host

Larry Lessig

Advisor

Roy L. Furman Prof of Law & Leadership Harvard Law

Cyndi Stivers

Advisor

Senior curator, TED Conferences / Media strategist

Evita Robinson

Advisor

Founder, NOMADNESS Travel Tribe

Rishad Tobaccowala

Advisor

Author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data

Sherry Turkle

Adivsor

Psychologist. Harvard Medical School, Professor, Author

Ava Seave

Advisor

Principal - Quantum Media

Jonathan Taplin

Advisor

Director Emeritus, Annenberg Innovation Lab at University of Southern California

Craig Parks

Advisor

Founding Head of Content + Partnerships Pepermint

David Berkowitz

Advisor

Mediaocean SVP Corporate Marketing & Comms

Matthew Quint

Advisor

Director. Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School

David Clinch

Advisor

Mather Economics

Angela Pang

Advisor

VP and cofounder of Make Truth Matter

Ted Brown

Advisor

CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development

PANKAJ KEDIA

Advisor

LORENZO THIONE

Advisor

VC, Startups, Broadway

Roger McNamee

Advisor

Founding Partner Elevation Partners.

James Rhee

Advisor

Impact Founder, Investor, CEO & Educator

Dave Hornilk

Advisor

Founder Lobby Capital

Devon Thompson

Advisor

Leo Hindery, Jr.

Adivsor

Tine Acquisition Corp. Chairman and CEO

Ken Bronfin

Advisor

Senior Managing Director, Hearst Ventures

Kathryn Jones

Advisor

Founder, the Collective

Katrina Conanan-Riel

Advisor

Culture and Business Programme

Isabel Lo

Advisor

Founder and Chair: Media Diversity Australia

Robert Green

Advisor

Strategist in Marketing, Film, Television and Digital content

David Chalmers

Advisor

Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist

Robert Tercek

Advisor

Name: Robert Tercek, General Creativity

Joanna Geary

Advisor

Sr Director, Curation, Twitter

Mark Bezos

Advisor

Co-Founder at HighPost Capital

GUY WINCH PH.D.

Advisor

ZIAD AHMED

NextGen Advisor

Co-Founder at HighPost Capital

Amol Sarva

Advisor

Co Founder: Ratio21 /

Juan Enriquiz

Advisor

Managing Director at Excel Venture Management

Richard Stengel

Advisor

Former Under Secretary of State in the Obama Admin

Frank Rose

Advisor

Author: The Sea We Swim In

Jay Rosen

Advisor

Professor, NYU Journalism

Nathan Lubin

Advisor

Technology & Digital Innovation

Andrew Pergam

Advisor

fmr Independent Oversight Board / Facebook

Danny Rogers

Advisor

Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Global Disinformation Index

Drew Schutte

Advisor

Advisor

Pat Aufderheide

Advisor

American University

Merrill Brown

Advisor

Founder and CEO The News Project Inc.

Jim Spanfeller

Advisor

CEO, G/O Media

- Keyvan Peymani

Advisor

Cirque du Soleil

Lisa Gibbs

Advisor

Associated Press

MELISSA ANDERSON

Advisor

co-founder, and President of Public Good

CLARKE PEOPLES

Advisor

Associated Press

Bing Chen

Advisor

Impact Founder & Investor (fmr YouTube/Google)

Dawn Barber

Advisor

Co-founder, NY Creative Tech Week 

Noelle Silver

Advisor

Executive, IBM Consulting in AI and Analytics and Founder, AI Leadership Institute

Ben Liener

Advisor

Product Marketing Lead Smart News

Elizabeth Osder

Advisor

Advisor

Gary Krantz

Advisor

Founder & CEO, Krantz Media Group

Bob Greene

Advisor

Managing Director at Liberty Global

Dan DeWolf

Advisor

Legal Lead, Partner, Mintz Levin.

Mark Walsh

Advisor

Angel & Venture Investor - Fmr Head , U.S. SBA -

Rob Bennett

Advisor

Avi Savar

Advisor

President, Suzy

Rory O'Conner

Advisor

President and Ceo / Globalvision

Mike Wheeler

Advisor

Chairman, TV79 Darien CT

David Carey

Advisor

Hearst

JIM SPANFELLER

Advisor

CEO G/O Media

ROB GOLDMAN

Advisor

Hearst

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