Data & Society Research Institute

Project Manager

• Provide day-to-day administrative and logistical support to the AI Civics Program, overseeing its operational calendar, including scheduling meetings with internal team members and external partners.
• Drive cross-departmental coordination to ensure project timelines, milestones, and deliverables remain aligned across internal teams.
• Monitor the AI Civics program inbox daily, triaging correspondence, flagging time-sensitive items, and ensuring timely follow-through on action items and partner requests.
• Coordinate internal team checkpoints and recurring program meetings, preparing agendas, tracking decisions, and following up on next steps.
• Maintain and optimize a relationship management tracker to log partner touchpoints, flag outstanding follow-ups, and ensure no partnership goes dormant or unattended.
• Lead on scheduling and logistics of co-design workshops, feedback, train-the-trainer sessions, community of practice meetings, and partner convenings.
• Lead on operational execution and production for in-person convenings (e.g. booking space, processing honoraria and reimbursements).
• Serve as a responsive point of contact for anchor partner organizations, identifying and proactively meeting coordination needs, centering the priorities of local member groups.
• Coordinate a monthly call with academic network partners for support and information sharing.
• Assist with communications to AI Civics partner organizations and community of practice, including updates, event announcements, and follow-up summary notes and agreements from convenings.
• Provide responsive follow-up to support to partners rolling out AI Civics programming with their own staff and membership.
• Assist the AI Civics Program team with preparation for co-design workshops, train-the-trainer sessions and participatory research activities with anchor partner organizations and their local member cohorts.
• Support coordination and convening of the academic network of researchers developing closely-related materials.
• Maintain the contact database and network infrastructure for AI Civics partners and the Community of Practice within our CRM system, under the guidance of the Network Engagement Manager.
• Long-term, help build connectivity between individual partners toward the creation of a national coalition of civic institutions—spanning partner organizations and the AI Civics Community of Practice.

Project Coordinator, AI Civics

AI Research Scientist

• Serve as a lead contributor on the AI Civics program focused on civic action and community control over AI.
• Lead one or more inter-organizational partnerships with national partner organizations working in K-12 education, labor, faith, or advocacy.
• Execute mission-critical co-design and participatory research projects as part of the AI Civics program.
• Collaborate closely with the AI Civics Program Director and team to co-produce educational materials and public-facing outputs.
• Report to organization leadership on the goals of the program and research progress.
• Participate and help plan research team events and public writing and speaking engagements.

Senior Researcher, AI Civics

Security Engineer

• Contribute to the AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge project as a full participant, including ideation, literature reviews, recruitment, conducting interviews and/or focus groups, conducting content/discourse analysis, coding data, memoing, writing, and other research needs as necessary
• Publish op-eds, blog posts, and papers related to ongoing research for academic and non-academic audiences
• Contribute to the culture of the Research Management team, the AI & Democracy initiative, and the broader Data & Society community
• Attend and collaborate with both internal and external researchers on outreach and network activities, including meetings, presentations, webinars, events, and conferences;
• Participate in team activities, including meetings, presentations, webinars, hearings, and conferences, which may require occasional travel

Project Coordinator, AI Civics

Senior Researcher, AI Civics

Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams – Systemic Security Challenge