Data on Purpose 2023: “Making Tech Work for Workers”

Presenters

• 
  Simon Johnson

  Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. In 2007-08 he was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and he currently co-chairs the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. In February 2021, Johnson joined the board of directors of Fannie Mae. Johnson’s most recent book, with Daron Acemoglu, Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, explores the history and economics of major technology choices up to and including the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence. Johnson was previously a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a cofounder of BaselineScenario.com, a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisors, and a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. From July 2014 to 2017, Johnson was a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), within which he chaired the Global Vulnerabilities Working Group. “For his articulate and outspoken support for public policies to end too-big-to-fail,” Johnson was named a Main Street Hero by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) in 2013.

  Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship,
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  
• 
  Jennifer Crane

  Jennifer Crane is an Amazon warehouse packer and a leader in the national campaign to raise wages and improve worker safety at Amazon. She currently works at the Amazon STL8 Fulfillment Center outside of St. Louis, MO, and is a member of the STL8 Organizing Committee and the Missouri Workers Center. Jennifer is a single mother of seven, and two of her children also work at Amazon.

  Member of Missouri Workers Center & the STL8 Amazon Organizing Committee
• 
  Anita Gurumurthy

  Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change where she leads research and advocacy on data and AI governance, platform regulation, and feminist frameworks on digital justice. Gurumurthy contributes regularly to academic and media spaces. She serves as an expert on various bodies including the United Nations Secretary-General’s 10-Member Group on Technology Facilitation, Council of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School – New York, and has been on the Paris Peace Forum’s working group on algorithmic governance. Gurumurthy is also a board member of global justice organizations such as the ETC Group and Focus on the Global South, and University centers such as the Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab at the University of Western Australia, and International Development and Social Change program of Loughborough University.

  Founding Member and Executive Director,
  IT for Change
  
• 
  Daniel Bertossa

  Daniel Bertossa is Assistant General Secretary at Public Services International (PSI) where he manages policy, advocacy and governance. He leads PSI's economic policy work in trade, tax, debt, digitalisation and the future of quality public services. Danny has worked for unions in Australia and the UK in public and private sector, leading campaigns for better pay and job security, and against outsourcing and precarious work. He was previously Director of Policy and Strategy at the Department of Premier and Cabinet in the Government of South Australia and was an Advisor to the Minister for Public Sector Management and Family and Community Services. Danny is currently the co-chair of the steering committee of the Independent Commission on Reform of International Corporate Tax (ICRICT), member of the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW) advisory board at the University of Greenwich, member of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) tax Technical Committee, and Chair of the Board of the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR).

  Assistant General Secretary, Public Services International (PSI)
• 
  Nzingha Hooker

  Nzingha Hooker is a movement lawyer who is committed to using her legal and policy skills to support worker power building and leadership development in Black communities. All her work is grounded in a racial equity and power analysis and aimed at actively contributing to the dismantling of structural racism, building worker power, and addressing income inequality. Hooker holds a bachelor of science in biochemistry from Claflin University and a juris doctor from the George Washington University Law School. She was a 2019 Law For Black Lives fellow and active member of Law 4 Black Lives DC. Her professional experience includes social insurance policy transformation and program integration at NELP, leadership in racial equity, litigation and direct legal services for people paid low wages as a family law litigator and assistant public defender. She currently serves as the policy director at the National Black Worker Center, where she is tasked with building the policy department, developing and advocating for NBWC's policy priorities, building partnerships, and leading national policy campaigns and coalitions. She is also a member of ONE DC's shared leadership team and co-chairs the Black Worker & Wellness Center advisory committee.

  Policy Director,
  National Black Worker Center
  
• 
  Hays Witt

  Hays Witt is the co-founder and CEO of the Driver's Seat Cooperative, and is a long-time progressive organizer and a subject matter expert in the new mobility and future of workers fields. He’s led major organizing projects and policy initiatives at SEIU and the Partnership for Working Families, consulted for the cities of Portland and Seattle, and advised non-profit clients like the National Employment Law Project. Driver’s Seat Cooperative empowers gig workers to capture the value of the data they create, while challenging the deep information asymmetries manifest in platform work. They give rideshare drivers and on-demand delivery workers the technology and the organization to collect and share their data, and put it to use improving their work lives and their communities. Witt co-founded Driver's Seat after a 20-year career running high-impact campaigns that empowered low-wage workers and communities while transforming industries like air travel, waste management, and commercial real estate to make them more equitable, inclusive and climate-friendly.

  Co-Founder and CEO,
  Driver's Seat Cooperative
  
• 
  Wilneida Negron

  Wilneida Negron is the director of research and policy at Coworker where she leads participatory research and investigations with workers and advocates on emerging technology trends in the workplace and across industries. Her work has led to the first comprehensive database of employment technologies that is being used by workers, government, advocates, academics, and journalists to understand emerging trends and design organizing, policy, regulatory, and storytelling strategies. She has a doctorate of philosophy in comparative politics, with a specialization in social and political implications of emerging technologies in East Asia and Latin America, a master’s of public administration, and a master’s of philosophy in international and global affairs. She is a lifelong fellow for Data & Society Research Institute and the Atlantic Fellows Program for Racial Equity.

  Director of Research and Policy,
  Coworker
  
• 
  Roy Bahat

  Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture capital firm that was the first to focus on the future of work, and the first to focus on artificial intelligence. He also serves on the faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he teaches "Unions and Otherwise: Leading an Organized Workforce." Bahat chairs the newly-formed Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, convening "labor open" business leaders to explore new ways of relating to organized labor. Bahat was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission, following work he did with New America to understand the long-term effect of technology on work in America. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, has served in government, and led a nonprofit in addition to his work at established corporations and starting a company. He serves on the board or as an advisor to several nonprofits including the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Economic Security Project, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Roy graduated from Harvard College, where he ran the student public service nonprofit. He was a Rhodes Scholar.

  Head,
  Bloomberg Beta
  
• 
  Brian Callici

  Brian Callaci is chief economist at the Open Markets Institute. He received his doctorate of philosophy in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and previously worked at Data & Society, Workers United, and the Strategic Organizing Center. He has written widely for scholarly and popular outlets including Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, and Labor Notes.

  Chief Economist,
  Open Markets Institute
  
• 
  Christy Hoffman

  Christy Hoffman is the general secretary of UNI Global Union, the global union federation for the services industries representing more than 20 million workers in 150 countries. Her work at UNI followed more than 25 years of experience as a US based trade unionist, beginning as an IAM shop steward in a jet engine factory, later as an organizer and finally as legal counsel to US unions including the UMWA, Teamsters and SEIU. At UNI, among other responsibilities, she was instrumental in the development of UNI’s Organizing program, which includes winning agreements with multinationals to secure the right to organize, and a focus on support for campaigns through capacity and solidarity. An influential advocate for corporate accountability and the human rights of workers, she also negotiated the ground-breaking Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh and arbitrated its provisions. Hoffman holds a juris doctor from NYU Law School and a bachelor’s in economics from Smith College.

  General Secretary,
  UNI Global Union
  
• 
  Kaiton Williams

  Kaiton Williams is a Silicon Valley engineer turned Human-Computer Interaction researcher. He joined Impact America Fund in 2018 with a particular interest in the challenges of connecting community-oriented research and design with scalable technology production and investment. Previously, Williams held senior engineering and architecture roles at Microsoft for over a decade, where he helped build and manage early web applications for billions of users. He then went on to earn his doctorate of philosophy in information science from Cornell University, where his ethnographic research focused on the experiences of tech entrepreneurs building products for and from communities outside of Silicon Valley’s "normal." Williams also received his bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering from Morgan State University.

  Investments,
  Impact America Fund
  
• 
  Martha Dark

  Martha Dark is a Foxglove founder and director with over a decade of experience building and managing social justice organizations. Dark was previously head of operations at Reprieve and chief operating officer of Open Rights Group. Dark is on the board of EDRi and Fair Trials International. Dark directs Foxglove campaigns and the day to day running of the organization, our infrastructure, our resources and supports our casework and investigations. Martha’s pronouns are she/her.

  Director and Cofounder,
  Foxglove Legal
  
• 
  Meera Joshi

  Meera Joshi is the deputy mayor for operations, overseeing New York City’s infrastructure portfolio. Prior to joining the Adam’s Administration, Meera Joshi was President Biden’s nominee for Administrator of USDOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the agency responsible for the regulation of interstate trucking. In this role, Joshi led initiatives aimed at improving roadway safety, the working conditions of truck drivers, and accountability mechanisms to integrate automation. She was previously chair and CEO of the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission, the nation’s largest for-hire transportation regulator where she spearheaded Vision Zero campaigns keeping high-risk drivers and unsafe vehicles off the road and led landmark policy, including establishing robust open transportation data standards; enacting the nation’s first for-hire driver pay protection program and providing broad and on-demand access to for-hire transportation for passengers who use wheelchairs. In addition to transportation oversight, Joshi was the inspector general for New York City’s Department of Corrections, responsible for the investigation of corruption and criminality at all levels of New York City’s jail operations, and the first deputy executive director of New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, leading investigations of civilian allegations of police misconduct. In addition to her government transportation experience, Joshi served as general manager for the New York Office of Sam Schwartz Transportation Consultants and was a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy. Joshi was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a bachelor’s degree and juris doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

  Deputy Mayor for Operations
  New York City
  
• 
  Kavita Dattani

  Kavita Dattani is a feminist researcher of digital technologies and data. Broadly, Dattani’s work seeks to uncover the ways in which new digital technologies are enabling particular forms of urban marginality, and the potentials for overcoming these. She has conducted research on biometric technologies, gig-economy work platforms and digital dating apps. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the Fairwork project which is committed to highlighting best and work practices in the platform economy across the globe.

  Postdoctoral Researcher,
  Fairwork Project,
  University of Oxford
• 
  Nicole Moore

  Nicole Moore is a part-time driver who became a founding member of Rideshare Drivers United in 2018, helping to organize RDU's first organizing committee meeting. Rideshare Drivers United has become a powerful, driver-led organization of 20,000 California-based app-drivers, taking action to improve the lives of drivers and expose the reality of app-workers around the globe. RDU's second strike in 2019 spread globally, with app-drivers in six continents participating only days in advance of Uber's public offering. More than 5000 members of RDU filed wage claims with the state of California in 2020, claiming lost wages, expenses, and damages of over $1.3 billion dollars. Those wage theft claims were based on drivers being fully covered by employee rights in California at that time and showed how billion-dollar companies use misclassification to impoverish workers while enriching themselves. This is why RDU joins hundreds of thousands who are still fighting tirelessly for full labor fights over second-class rights for all app workers, while demanding regulation to make all app professions fairly paid and safe. Moore lives in Los Angeles and works in healthcare when she’s not driving, organizing, or hanging out with family.

  Founding Member,
  Rideshare Drivers United
  
• 
  Lisa Dewey-Mattia

  Lisa Dewey-Mattia (she/her) is the director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Office of Continuous Improvement, a team that applies lean and design thinking to transform processes to meet internal and external customer needs. In her twelve plus years with the agency, she has also managed efforts across multiple disciplines -- from implementing new technology for the PATH train system to logistics planning for World Trade Center Redevelopment. Dewey-Mattia has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s degree in urban planning from Rutgers University’s Bloustein School, and holds a professional license from the American Institute of Certified Planners.

  Director,
  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Office of Continuous Improvement
  
• 
  David Weil

  David Weil is a professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and in AY 2022-23 visiting senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democracy, Harvard Kennedy School. He also served as the dean of the Heller School from 2017-2022. Weil served as the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor under President Barack Obama from 2014 to January 2017. Weil is an internationally recognized expert in employment and labor market policy along with regulation, transparency policy, and the impacts of industry restructuring on wages, employment and work outcomes. He has advised government agencies at the state and federal levels and international organizations on employment, labor, and workplace policies. He is the author of more than 130 articles and five books including The Fissured Workplace (Harvard University Press). He has received many awards including the Frances Perkins Intelligence and Courage Award and was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation in 2022. Weil received his bachelor’s of science in industrial and labor relations at Cornell University and master's and doctorate of philosophy degrees in public policy at Harvard University.

  Professor,
  Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
  
• 
  Becky Lee

  Becky Lee is a scrappy, creative, and thoughtful design leader and change agent. Currently, she is a director at IDEO, leading a portfolio focused on economic mobility and workforce development. She uses the power of design to create new programs, services, and experiences that unlock personal transformation and professional opportunities for adult learners. She's also dedicated to shifting the burden from the individual and transforming outdated learning and hiring systems to be more human-centered, inclusive, and innovative. Prior to IDEO, Lee worked in media research at Nielsen and served as a Fulbright fellow in Brazil, learning Portuguese and teaching English. She holds degrees in English and psychology from Cornell University. In her free time, you can find her voraciously reading, hiking with her cattle dog, or behind a sewing machine.

  Director,
  IDEO
  
• 
  Biju Mathew

  Biju Mathew is co-founder and executive committee member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) and president of the International Alliance of App-based Transport Workers (IAATW). He is also on the advisory council of The Indian Federation of App based Transport Workers (IFAT) and co-PI on an ongoing study of app based transport workers in India. Most recently, he authored “Magic Wands And Monkey Brains” in the South Atlantic Quarterly on questions of the labor movement, data and value.

  Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member,
  New York Taxi Workers Alliance
  
• 
  Lexi Reese

  Lexi Reese has spent her career building world class, mission-driven organizations that empower companies and people to grow and perform at their best. One of her guiding principles is that every human should have equitable access to information, funding, and work, in order to not only survive, but thrive. She is currently a resident at General Catalyst focused on workforce transformation. She invests and advises organizations across sectors to drive durable and shared prosperity for people, businesses, and society. Prior to General Catalyst, Reese was the chief operating officer of Gusto, the people platform that enables 200,000+ American businesses to build and take care of their teams. She empowered the technology company's business teams, which included strategy, marketing, sales, customer experience, and business development. Reese spent her early career in microfinance as a public policy advocate with ACCION. She went on to American Express, serving in their investment group and their small and medium-sized business team. She later worked at Google, starting the Cambridge AdWords team for Google's online operations group and eventually leading Google’s Global Programmatic Advertising business. She is currently a fellow at Harvard Business School, inclusive Leadership, and a director on the boards of Elevate K-12 and Lattice. She is a partner in the Operator Collective and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Lexi has a master’s of business administration from Harvard Business School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Virginia. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two daughters.

  Resident,
  General Catalyst
  
• 
  Tolu Lawrence

  Tolu Lawrence is the Managing Director of Programs and Partnerships at JUST Capital. She leads the creation and management of partnerships across sectors to influence markets and workplaces by directly engaging business leaders and stakeholders on key issues the American public identifies as most important when it comes to just business behavior. Tolu has over a decade of experience bringing together leading nonprofits, foundations, social enterprises, and brands to develop and support mission-driven initiatives that further social good and help shift public narratives. Prior to joining JUST Capital, Tolu led the expansion of the Workplace Advisors program at Promundo where she served on the Steering Group of the Parental Leave Corporate Task Force, and orchestrated social impact partnerships with Archewell Foundation, Cummins, Hello Sunshine, L’Oreal, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, etc. She also led Strategic Partnerships at The Representation Project, developing gender equality campaigns and initiatives with socially conscious brands and media companies, including AT&T, Harry’s, Lucasfilm, Spotify, and Viacom. Tolu serves as an advisor to Feminist.com and formerly served on Spotify’s Culture Change Collective. She also sits on the boards of PL+US (Paid Leave for the US) and Partnership for Male Youth. Tolu holds a Juris Doctor degree from American University Washington College of Law and is a member of the California Bar.

  Managing Director and Head of Corporate Impact, JUST Capital
• 
  Rumman Chowdhury

  Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge enterprise technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI since 2017. She is currently the Director of the META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability) team at Twitter as well as GP of a venture capital fund, Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, that invests in early-stage responsible technology startups. She was previously CEO and founder of Parity AI, an enterprise algorithmic audit platform company and formerly served as Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence.

  Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
• 
  Maria Noel Fernandez

  Maria Noel Fernandez brings over a decade of organizing experience to the movement for a just economy. As executive director of Working Partnerships USA, she oversees campaigns advocating for people-centered policy, and builds coalitions and community power to win groundbreaking change for working families. She is the campaign director for Silicon Valley Rising and currently sits on the board of Power Switch Action. Since beginning her career as an organizer, she has worked with local government and community organizations, running successful campaigns to raise the minimum wage, pass a general tax for county safety net services, and more.

  Executive Director,
  Working Partnerships USA
  
• 
  Amanda Ballantyne

  Amanda Ballantyne is executive director of the AFL-CIO’s Technology Institute, where she works to develop strategies to engage workers in the innovation process. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, she was executive director of the Main Street Alliance, a national network of small business owners and entrepreneurs focused on policy and employment issues. She brings nearly 20 years of organizing, policy and legal experience in unions and NGOs. Ballantyne graduated from Smith College and earned her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law.

  Executive Director,
  AFL-CIO’s Technology Institute
  
• 
  Moderator

  Anup Kaphle

  Anup Kaphle is the editor-in-chief for Rest of World, a non-profit international publication that reports on the impact of technology outside the Western world. Kaphle returned to the United States in 2020 from Nepal, his home country, where, as the editor-in-chief of The Kathmandu Post, he managed the country’s largest English-language newsroom as well as the digital platforms for the company’s vernacular national daily and magazines. Before that, Kaphle led the editorial team at Roads & Kingdoms, the James Beard-winning independent media producing stories at the intersection of food, travel, and foreign reporting. Prior to that, he worked at BuzzFeed News — first in London, then New York — as the deputy foreign editor, running the publication's foreign coverage on stories ranging from the war against ISIS to the migrant crisis. Kaphle spent six years at The Washington Post, where he worked on the foreign desk as the digital editor, helping produce and plan coverage for stories from the paper’s 15 international bureaus. He has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and lives in New York City.

  Editor-in-Chief,
  Rest of World
  
• 
  Moderator

  Ritse Erumi

  Ritse Erumi is a program officer on the Future of Work(ers) team. She leads Ford’s work on advancing more fair economies through new approaches to technology and innovation, narrative change, and business engagement. Erumi joined the foundation as a fellow working at the intersection of technology, economic opportunity, and equity. Prior to Ford, Erumi served as a strategist and advisor to civil society groups, development agencies, governments, and businesses on models for digital innovation and systemic change. As a public interest technologist, her work explores the socioeconomic implications of emerging technologies among marginalized and underserved communities. Erumi holds a doctorate of philosophy in policy and management and a master’s in information systems, with a concentration in social change, innovation, and gender, from the University of Manchester.

  Program Officer, Future of Work(ers)
  Ford Foundation
  
• 
  Moderator

  Nabiha Syed

  Nabiha Syed is the chief executive officer of The Markup. She oversees The Markup’s strategy, growth plans and business operations. Syed also oversees legal, communications, personnel and other operational matters. Before joining The Markup, Syed was vice president and associate general counsel at BuzzFeed, where she counseled on newsgathering, libel, and privacy matters worldwide. Under her leadership, the company successfully defended against libel litigation arising out of the publication of the Steele dossier and initiated numerous notable access litigations. Prior to BuzzFeed, Syed co-founded the nation’s first media access law clinic, currently in its 10th year of operation at Yale Law School, and served as a First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times. Syed has been described as “one of the best emerging free speech lawyers” by Forbes magazine, and a “real reporter’s lawyer” by the Reporter’s Committee for the Freedom of the Press, which recognized her with an inaugural award in 2018. She is also a lifelong Girl Scout.

  Chief Executive Officer,
  The Markup
  
• 
  Moderator

  Eric Nee

  Eric Nee is editor-in-chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review, a position he has held since 2006. Eric has more than 35 years of experience in the publishing industry. Before joining Stanford University, he was a senior writer for Fortune. While there, Eric helped Time Inc. launch eCompany Now (where he was executive editor), which later became Business 2.0. Before joining Fortune, Eric launched Forbes’s Silicon Valley bureau, where he was bureau manager. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside for close to five years. Eric earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife Tekla, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum.

  Editor-in-Chief,
  Stanford Social Innovation Review
  
• 
  Moderator

  Marcie Bianco

  Bianco is editor, print, at Stanford Social Innovation Review. Her first book, Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom, will be published September 5, 2023.

  Editor,
  Stanford Social Innovation Review
  
• 
  Moderator

  Barbara Wheeler-Bride

  Barbara Wheeler-Bride is editor, digital at Stanford Social Innovation Review. She has 20 years of experience with nonprofit organizations, ranging from community-based efforts to international organizations. Barbara has spent time working on young adult volunteer programs, a community-development initiative, nonprofit communications, and fundraising. She was previously the editor-in-chief of United Methodist Women’s Response magazine and BustedHalo.com. Barbara also served for eight years on the board of directors of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, one of New York City’s largest food pantries. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism from Shippensburg University and lives in upstate New York with her family.

  Editor,
  Stanford Social Innovation Review
  
• 
  Moderator

  Bryan Maygers

  Bryan Maygers is deputy editor, digital at Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has more than a decade of experience as an editor at some of the web’s most influential news and opinion publications. Before joining SSIR, he was an editor at The Week and previously held several senior editorial positions at HuffPost, where he launched and edited the site’s first opinion section. He also has serves as a volunteer mentor-editor for The OpEd Project, an organization dedicated to developing and supporting underrepresented voices in media. He has a bachelor’s degree in history and religious studies from the University of Kansas and now lives in Brooklyn.

  Deputy Editor,
  Stanford Social Innovation Review
  
• 
  Moderator

  Ryan Gerety

  Ryan Gerety is the acting director of the Athena Coalition, a coalition of 50+ worker, antitrust, racial justice, tech advocacy, economic justice, and environmental justice organizations working together to break the dangerous stranglehold of Amazon over our democracy, economy, and planet. As a researcher and computer scientist, Ryan has spent the last 15 years focused on the economic and political implications of new technology. She was previously at the Ford Foundation and the Open Technology Institute at New America.

  Acting Director,
  Athena Coalition
  
• 
  Moderator

  David V. Johnson

  David V. Johnson is deputy editor, print, at Stanford Social Innovation Review. He is a former philosophy professor turned journalist with more than a decade of experience as an editor and writer. Previously, he was senior opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, where he edited the op-ed section of the news channel’s website. Earlier in his career, he served as online editor at Boston Review and research editor at San Francisco magazine the year it won a National Magazine Award for general excellence. He has written for The New York Times, USA Today, The New Republic, Bookforum, Aeon, Dissent, and The Baffler, among other publications. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). David earned a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University, a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, a master’s degree in classics from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley.

  Deputy Editor,
  Stanford Social Innovation Review