Advisory Board

A committed teacher, midnight believer, and a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop World, Adam Banks is Professor and Faculty Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He also serves as an affiliate faculty member of the programs in African and African American Studies and Science, Technology and Society.

Andreen Soley is director of the Public Interest Technology (PIT) University Network at New America. In 2018, Soley joined New America after twenty years of experience working within higher education and the nonprofit sector. She has a master’s in media ecology from New York University and wants to help technologists transform the world for the better.

Karen Nakamura is cultural and visual anthropologist who researches disability in contemporary Japan and the United States at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently runs the UC Berkeley Disability Lab and the Othering and Belonging Institute's Disability Studies research cluster.

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Associate Professor of Telecommunication at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses on regulation and policy. Jasmine researches media, technology, and law with an emphasis on privacy, surveillance and data governance. She is also the Associate Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at UF, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

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Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor and speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education. His ideas have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and Vice Magazine. He is a Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Visiting Research Fellow, a member of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Scholars Council, and a member of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project community advisory board.