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, Northeastern University
Academic
Stacy Fox, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
Eric Gordon, Professor and Director of the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact, Boston University
Evan Horowitz, Director, The Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA)
Elizabeth Jackson, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Michael Johnson, Professor, Dept. of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts
Boston
Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Executive Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative (DSI), Harvard University
Loretta Lees, Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
Esteban Moro, Professor, Network Science Institute & Director of the SUN Lab at Northeastern University
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
Jeffery Lambart, Director of Analytics, City of Boston
Jessie Partridge Guerrero, Data Services Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Will Pfeffer, Civic Technologist, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Shin-pei Tsay, Chief Information Officer, City of Boston
Private
Rory Neuner, Senior Learning Officer, Barr Foundation
Luc Schuster, Director, Boston Indicators
Aimee Sprung, Director, Technology & Civic Engagement, Microsoft New England