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April 14, 2026/Q&A, Research

Sohyeon Hwang on the Challenge and Promise of Coordinating Governance Across Online Communities

Sohyeon Hwang, PhD is in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow. Sohyeon serves as a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University, where she studies community-based systems of governance in technologies, including decentralized social media and gig work. We sat down with Sohyeon to learn more about her recent work on inter-community governance processes, how she involves communities in her research, and strategies for overcoming some of the frictions that emerge from coordinating across decentralized social media communities.

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April 7, 2026/Q&A, Research

Alexandra Mateescu on Workers’ Experience of Technology, Worker Power, and Finding Hope in Challenging Times

Alexandra Mateescuis in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow at Data & Society, where she has worked for the last decade. In this Q&A, Alexandra shares her research about the gendered experience of the gig economy; how AI is an extension of existing tools of surveillance and control of workers; and how workers themselves are building power and challenging existing narratives about the promise and peril of technology. We also discuss Alexandra’s new co-authored paperon the underlying dynamics of power, control, and ideology that are shaping AI adoption in the workplace.

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January 13, 2026/Q&A, Research

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.

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October 22, 2025/Q&A, Research

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.

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June 3, 2025/From Our Grantees, Q&A, Research

The Human in the Loop: Pegah Moradi on Automation, Discretion, and the Future of Frontline Work

Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and workers.

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May 28, 2025/From Our Grantees, Q&A

Home Growing Community Leaders in New York City Neighborhoods

CitizensNYC’s CEO Reflects on the Organization at 50 Years and Explains Why Its Work Is More Relevant Than Ever A youth beekeeping initiative on Staten […]

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May 22, 2025/Q&A, Research

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Ruchika Joshi

Ruchika Joshi is a Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, where she develops technically rigorous solutions for industry […]

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April 16, 2025/Q&A

A Surprising Obstacle to the Adoption of Innovative School Models 

We sat down with Brent Maddin of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at ASU, and George Vinton and Kelly Anguiano of Common Group to learn more about the role that administrative systems play in whether, when, and how schools choose to adopt innovative models; the ways in which these technological systems could be redesigned to help facilitate innovation; and the opportunities for both the supply side and the demand side of the market to develop solutions for making administrative systems in K-12 education more flexible.

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July 29, 2024/From Our Grantees, Q&A

Establishing Computational Thinking as a Core Literacy

We sat down with Project Tomorrow CEO Julie Evans to discuss why computational thinking skills are important for all learners to develop; how Project Tomorrow reaches teachers where they are; how a personalized and customized approach to professional learning can scale without losing quality; and why a “campfire approach” to innovation won’t change systems.

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June 5, 2024/From Our Grantees, Q&A

Deploying High Risk, Informed Capital Toward Innovative Models for Learning with Technology

We sat down with Managing Director of the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund Amber Oliver to discuss the organization’s unique model and approach.

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May 21, 2024/From Our Grantees, Q&A

Moving Education Toward the Third Horizon

We sat down with LearnerStudio’s founder and CEO Kim Smith to learn about why she founded the organization, her vision for the third horizon of education, the infrastructure that is needed to develop a future-ready educational ecosystem, and the crucial role of philanthropy in driving innovation.

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