Cohort Year 2023-2024

From Oscilloscopes to AI Policy: Building a Foundation of Public AI Understanding with Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman, a Siegel Fellow from 2022 to 2024, serves as an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, focusing on the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. They recently sat down with Siegel Emerging Tech Advisor Eryk Salvaggio to discuss their journey and work on AI primers, literacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem change

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life Yvonne Eadon 

Yvonne Eadon is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky investigating feminized conspiracy theories and the gender dynamics within online communities that form around them, as well as how information institutions interface with and assist researchers with alternative or conspiratorial viewpoints. 

Amy Winecoff

Amy Winecoff is an AI governance fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where she focuses on establishing and promoting best practices in governing AI systems. Previously, she was a fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, where she examined how cultural, organizational, and institutional factors shape emerging AI and blockchain companies. Amy has hands-on experience as a data scientist in the tech industry, where she built and deployed recommender systems for e-commerce. She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Duke University, where her research explored human emotion and social decision-making. @aawinecoff on Twitter. amywinecoff on LinkedIn

Ranjit Singh

Ranjit Singh is a senior researcher at Data & Society, focused on qualitative research for the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab (AIMLab). With a particular focus on research equity, he also helps guide research ethics at the Data & Society Research…

Sara M. Watson

Sara is a technology critic and industry analyst. Her intersectional career covering data, privacy, and tech policy bridges industry, policy, and academia. She is currently appointed as a Siegel Research Fellow with All Tech Is Human mapping the responsible technology…

Hannah Waight

Hannah is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) at New York University. She received my Ph.D. in May 2022 from the Princeton University Sociology Department. Fall 2024 she will join the University of Oregon…

Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman is an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, where they work at the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. Eleanor is a computer scientist by training invested in bridging the gap between academic research…