Cohort Year 2024-2025

AI and the Labor Market: Megan Rivera on How Policymakers Can Regulate AI to Create a Better Economy for All

Megan Rivera was a 2024-2025 Siegel Research Fellow and is a fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, where she studies the impact of AI on the labor market and economy, among other topics. We sat down with Megan to learn more about her recent policy brief, how she found her fit working in legislative politics, the potential for integrating worker voice into decision-making around AI, and how the Siegel Research Fellowship helped expand her horizons.

AI and the Search for Truth: Kylan Rutherford on Data Voids, Distrust, and the Pathways to Better Information

Kylan Rutherford is a Siegel Research Fellow at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, where he studies the complex relationship between social media content creators, platform consumers, and the platforms themselves. We sat down with Kylan to learn more about his research on how AI is affecting search, misinformation, and data voids.

Sohyeon Hwang

Sohyeon is a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University, in the Center for Information Technology Policy. Her research work asks how everyday people can shape the governance of technologies underpinning their social, economic, and political lives. She pursues this by examining…

Nicole Alvarez

Nicole Alvarez is a Senior Policy Analyst on the Technology Policy team at the Center for American Progress (CAP), where she develops forward-looking policies to address the challenges and opportunities posed by emerging technologies. Committed to fostering innovation that respects…

Ben Zipperer

Ben Zipperer joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2016. His areas of expertise include the minimum wage, inequality, and low-wage labor markets. He has published research in The Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and…

Shanthi Bolla

Shanthi first joined Aspen Digital in fall of 2022. As Senior Program Manager, Shanthi works across Aspen Digital’s five main priority areas to provide project management, research, and partnership support. Her focus is primarily on empowering communities through special projects…

Emma Zajdela

Emma Zajdela is an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University in the High Meadows Environmental Institute and School of Public and International Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University, where she…