Leadership
Director: Dan O’Brien, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and School of
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Associate Director: Kim Lucas, Professor of the Practice, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.
Academic
Dolores Acevedo Garcia, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Brandeis University
Stacy Fox, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
Eric Gordon, Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab, Dept. of Visual & Media Arts, Emerson College
Evan Horowitz, Director, The Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA)
Elizabeth Jackson, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts
Boston
Ted Landsmark, Director, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Executive Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative (DSI), Harvard University
Loretta Lees, Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
Esteban Moro, Visiting Professor, Media Lab Human Dynamics Group and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
Samantha Teixeira, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Boston College
Non-Profit
Philip Giffee, Executive Director, Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)
Renee Boynton-Jarrett, Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network
John Smith, Executive Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI)
Public
Michael Evans, Director, Office of Emerging Technologies, City of Boston
Santiago Garces, Chief Information Officer, City of Boston
Jessie Partridge Guerrero, Data Services Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Kristina Johnson, Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Jeffery Lambart, Director of Analytics, City of Boston
Steph Costa Leabo, Department of Innovation and Technology, City of Boston
Private
Luc Schuster, Director, Boston Indicators
Aimee Sprung, Director, Technology & Civic Engagement, Microsoft New England