
Ann Kirschner
Board Member
Interim president of Hunter College / Author

Steve Rosenbaum
Board Member
Executive Director

Ava Seave
Board Member
Columbia University / adjunct / Principal – Quantum Media

Kenneth Bronfin –
Board Member
Senior Managing Director, Hearst Ventures

Avalon Fenster
Board Member
Youth Activist / TikTok Creator

Dawn Barber
Board Member
Co-Founder, NYC Tech Meeetup

Emma Lembke
NextGen Advisor
Founder of LOG OFF, Co-Chair of Design It For Us

Dylan Troesken
NextGen Advisor
NextGen Advisor

LUNA BARUJEL
NextGen Advisor

Rhonamyr Narvaja
NextGen Advisor
btech.nyc / NextGen Advisor

AIDAN KOHN-MURPHY
NextGen Advisor
Founder, GenZ For Change

Ziad Ahmed
Advisor
American-Muslim-Bangladeshi entrepreneur/speaker.

OLVIA STELTZER
NextGen Advisor
Editor: Cramm The News

Mya Hollis
NextGen Advisor
btech.nyc / NextGen Advisor

Sofia Ongele
Advisor
NextGen Advisor

Raziya Palmer
NextGen Advisor
Student at Success Academy Highschool of the Liberal Arts- Harlem

CONNOR DALGAARD
NextGen Advisor
Student at Vassar College

Robert Roman
NextGen Advisor
btech.nyc / NextGen Advisor

AVALON FENSTER
NextGen Advisor
Youth Activist / TikTok Creator

OLIVIA JULLIANA
NextGen Advisor
Political Activist

JACLYN CORIN
NextGen Advisor
Student at Harvard University

Zamaan Qureshi
NextGen Advisor
Co-Chair | Design It For Us

Duncan Angiluli
NextGen Advisor
NextGen Advisor

CLARKE PEOPLES
NextGen Advisor
Kluge Scholar at Columbia University

Eric Gertler
Advisor
Exec Chair & CEO of US News & World Report

Tara Bahl
Advisor
Content Strategy and Programming at Paramount+

Evan Shapiro
Advisor
Executive Director

Kevin Wassong
Advisor
Partner | INTEG:Advisors

Jiore Craig
Advisor
Head of Digital Integrity at ISDN

Stephen DeBerry
Advisor
Bronze Investments

Keyvan Peymani
Advisor
Cirque du Soleil

Tameka Kee
Advisor
Advertising Futurist

John Rose
Advisor
BCG

Lane Merrifield
Advisor
Founder – Club Penguin

Richard Gingras
Advisor
VP / News, Google

Craig Parks
Advisor
Founding Head of Content + Partnerships Peppermint

Tobacco Brown
Advisor
Social and Public Artist. TED Speaker

Michael Zigman
Advisor
CEO – NYC First

Cyndi Stivers
Advisor
Senior curator, TED Conferences / Media strategist

Kristin Koch
Advisor
Editor in Chief, Seventeen Magazine, Hearst

Evita Robinson
Advisor
Founder, NOMADNESS Travel Tribe

David Berkowitz
Advisor
Mediaocean SVP Corporate Marketing & Comms

Bing Chen
Advisor
Impact Founder & Investor (fmr YouTube/Google)

Jon Vein
Advisor
Serial entrepreneur, Ent. exec and Civic leader

Kathryn Jones
Advisor
Media Entrepreneur

Melissa Anderson
Advisor
co-founder, and President of Public Good

Devon Thompson
Advisor

Aida Murad
Advisor
Impact Artists

Lorenzo Thione
Advisor
VC, Startups, Broadway

Robert Tercek
Advisor
General Creativity

Gary Krantz
Advisor
Founder & CEO, Krantz Media Group

Gary Knell
Advisor
Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group, fmr Chair Nat Geo, Fmr CEO NPR, fmr CEO Sesame Workshop.

Rob Goldman
Advisor
Entrepreneur & friend to startups, fmr Facebook

Lori Cullen
Advisor
Publisher at iGeneration Youth

Dror Shimshowitz
Advisor
Shopify, Director of Product

Frank Rose
Advisor
Columbia University/ Author: The Sea We Swim In

Rishad Tobaccowala
Advisor
fmr Publicis, Author of Restoring the Soul of Business
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Bradley Horowitz
Advisor

John Palfrey
Advisor
President, MacArthur Foundation

David Clinch
Advisor
Mather Economics

Bob Greene
Advisor
Managing Director at Liberty Global

Rus Sarnoff
Advisor
Media Explorer

David Hornik
Advisor
Founder Lobby Capital

Brian Stelter
Advisor
The Shorenstein Center

Jason E. Klein
Advisor
Founder, On Grid Ventures

David Carey
Advisor
SVP of public affairs and communications

Brian Cohen
Advisor
Science Literacy Foundation

Dennis Crowley
Advisor
founder: Four Square

Maria Gotsch
Advisor
The Partnership for NYC

David S. Rose
Advisor
Principal, Rose Tech Ventures

Pankaj Kedia
Advisor
Qualcomm

Mayo Stuntz
Advisor
Pilot Group, Bessemer Venture Partners

Mark Bezos
Advisor
Co-Founder at HighPost Capital

Andy Sernovitz
Advisor

Brad Berens
Advisor
Strategist, Advisor, Editor-in-Chief, Innovation & Digital Transformation Expert

Bradley Tusk
Advisor

Amol Sarva
Advisor
Co Founder: Ratio21

Gil Forer
Advisor
Lead Partner, Digital Disruption, at EY

Avi Savar
Advisor
President, Suzy

Sherry Turkle
Advisor
Psychologist.MIT, Professor, Author

Robert Green
Advisor
Strategist in Marketing, Film, Television and Digital content

Joanna Geary
Advisor
Sr Director, Curation, Twitter

Sanda Balaban
Advisor
Executive Director – YVoteNY

Lori Cullen
Advisor
Publisher at iGeneration Youth

Rob Bennett
Advisor
Executive Director

Karen Wickre
Advisor
Founder, KVOX Media

Julie Scelfo
Advisor
Journalist, Media Ecologist and Executive Director, Get Media Savvy,

Guy Winch Ph.D.
Advisor
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, TED Speaker

Noelle Silver
Advisor
Executive, IBM Consulting in AI, Founder, AI Leadership Institute

Leo Hindery
Advisor
ex-CEO TCI and AT&T Broadband

Nathaniel Lubin
Advisor
Technology & Digital Innovation

Jon Miller
Advisor
CEO, Integrated Media Co

Angela Pang
Advisor
Vice President and cofounder of Make Truth Matter

Esther Dyson
Advisor
executive founder at Wellville

Roger McNamee
Advisor
Co-Founder Elevation Partners

Anya Schiffrin
Advisor
Columbia University /SIPA | Director: Open Society Foundations

Lawrence Lessig
Advisor
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership | Harvard Law School

Katrina Conanan-Riel
Advisor
Culture and Business Programmer

Michael Zigman
Advisor
CEO of NYC FIRST

Dan DeWolf,
Advisor
Partner, Mintz

Brad Caruso
Advisor
Brad Caruso is a Partner at Withum, a 1200 person advisory + audit + tax firm CPA

Mark Walsh
Advisor
Angel & Venture Investor – Fmr Head , U.S. SBA –

Juan Enriques
Advisor
Managing Director at Excel Venture Management

Isabel Lo
Advisor
Founder and Chair: Media Diversity Australia

Lara Stein
Advisor
CEO Boma Global

Jim Spanfeller
Advisor
CEO G/O Media

James Rhee
Advisor
Impact Founder, Investor, CEO & Educator

Jim Clark
Advisor
Founder, Global Partnership for Civic Engagement (& Better Century Awards) + Democracy Dinners

Kurt Andersen
Advisor
author, writer, talker

Baratunde Thurston
Advisor
Executive Producer & Host of How To Citizen with Baratunde

Bob Garfield
Advisor
Host: Bully Pulpit, fmr Host On The Media

Jonathan Taplin
Advisor
Director Emeritus, Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC

David Chalmers
Advisor
Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist

Mark Lukasiewicz
Advisor
Dean, Hofstra University, School of Communication |

Ben Leiner
Advisor
SmartNews

Mike Wheeler/
Advisor
Chairman, I TV79 Darien CT

LISA GIBBS
Advisor
The Associated Press

Jay Rosen
Advisor
Professor, NYU Journalism

Tom Rosenstiel
Advisor
Author, Novelist, Media Critic, Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at University of Maryland

Frank Rose
Advisor
Columbia University/ Author: The Sea We Swim In

Merrill Brown
Advisor
Founder/CEO at The News Project

Duarte Geraldino
Advisor
Journalist / Chedder

RICHARD STENGEL
Advisor
Former Under Secretary of State in the Obama admin. Former editor of TIME.

Andrew Pergam
Advisor
fmr Independent Oversight Board / Facebook

DREW SCHUTTE
Advisor

Rory O’Connor
Advisor
President and CEO, Globalvision

Ricardo Miranda
Advisor
Assoc Prof, Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY

Steven Strauss
Advisor
Princeton University

Ann Hollifield
Advisor
Professor, Department of Journalism / University of Georgia

Uri Hasson
Advisor
Professor of Psychology and Neuro Science / Princeton

Danny Rogers
Advisor
NYU Adjunct / Physicist, Technologist, Co- Founder The Global Disinformation Index

Ted Brown
Advisor
Exec director of the CUNY software institute

Greg Morrisett
Advisor
Dean and Vice Provost, Cornell Tech

Matthew Quint
Advisor
Director. Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School

Pat Aufderheide
Advisor
American University / Founder the Center for Media & Social Impact,