Former Resident Fellows

Resident Fellows are integrity professionals who want to help shape the future of the profession and define what it means to responsibly build the social internet. They work full-time with the Integrity Institute, for a duration ranging from 3 to 12 months, on a variety of projects that advance our goals: ensuring that social products are built with more integrity, advancing the theory and practice of integrity work, and helping integrity workers have more power and influence.

The Institute provides significant support for Resident Fellows and their work, from salary, to collaboration within our community, to our broad connections to policy, advocacy, and civil society organizations. The Institute is also honored to be partnering with George Washington University and the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics to provide academic support and connections to Resident Fellows.

Read more about Resident Fellows here

  • Laure X Cast

    RESIDENT FELLOW (2023–24)

    Read more about Laure’s Resident Fellowship project here!

    Laure has a decade of product leadership roles working on collaboration/communication tech, including as Head of Research for Marco Polo app, where they had the opportunity to work on integrity issues. They are a board member for Prosocial Design Network, a steering committee member for the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, a steward at the Collaborative Technology Alliance, a mentor with All Tech is Human, a member of Aspen Institute’s Virtually Human working group, and a founder who is slowly working to design and develop a platform orienting around belonging and distributed-power/leaderful collectives. For the last 2 years, they have worked as a consultant helping nonprofits/social impact companies develop UX research and product discovery practices, as well as working with orgs around community design. Laure has a varied career background that includes work around HIV/AIDS, documentary film, and technology. They have been a speaker at SXSW, Mind the Product Leadership Forum, Grace Hopper Celebration, Product Stack LA, BuildPeace conference, among others.

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  • Jenn Louie

    RESIDENT FELLOW (2023–24)

    Read more about Jenn’s Resident Fellowship project here!

    Jenn Louie is a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Her graduate research is a compassionate interrogation into how new technologies are shaping our moral futures and how moral conflicts are unintentionally replicated into tech governance and design through unexamined moral inheritances. She is an advocate for improving moral literacy for technologists and believes in cultivating innovation as a moral practice. Her latest research interests lie at the intersection of moral futurism, AI governance, design systems, youth and media, social media governance and the compounded impact on global affairs, society and diplomacy.

    Prior to graduate school, she served as the former Head of Integrity Operations for Pages, Groups, Messenger, and Events platforms at Facebook. She previously held positions as the first Head of Trust & Safety at Meetup and originally established her integrity career at Google with a focus on new products and monetization policies before working on new product strategy and operations. Jenn has industry experience in a wide variety of integrity and safety issues, online user policy development, content moderation, scaled enforcement operations for social media, online product integrity, online enforcement tools, and community support operations. Jenn has spoken on online risk and tech policies at SXSW, IDEO, law schools, Techweek NYC, the NYPD Cyber intelligence and Counterterrorism Conference and the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium.

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  • Tom Cunningham

    RESIDENT FELLOW (2023)

    Read more about Tom’s Resident Fellowship projects here and here!

    Tom Cunningham worked as economist and data scientist at Facebook and Twitter, working on content moderation and company strategy. His work has been extensively quoted in many publications, in the House report on Competition in Digital Markets, and the House report on January 6. Since resigning from Twitter in November 2022 he has been writing about content moderation.

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2023 Visiting Fellows

The Integrity Institute is thrilled to announce its inaugural cohort of Visiting Fellows. Starting in July 2023 for a period of six months, 16 Institute members with extensive on-platform integrity experience will join as Visiting Fellows on a voluntary basis to lead projects that support the Institute’s research, policy, and community anchors.

The inaugural cohort of Visiting Fellows will lead projects along two separate tracks: the Community track and the Research & Policy track.

Read more about the inaugural Visiting Fellows cohort here

  • Bri Riggio

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Bri Riggio currently leads Discord's Platform Policy Team and was the company's first Counter Extremism Team Lead. Before joining Discord, Bri worked at several higher education institutions and nonprofits, operating at the intersection of education and international relations. She has used her experience interacting with academics, activists, and government entities to inform her work in the tech industry.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Bri will crowdsource, document, and compile leadership best practices and resources for new and emerging leaders in the integrity field.

  • Grady Ward

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Grady Ward is an engineer based in Boulder, Colorado, and currently one half of Silicon Ally, a two-person 501(c)(3) focused on helping nonprofits scale their impact. Prior to Silicon Ally, Grady was at Google and worked on a broad range of issues that surround the responsible custodianship of data, including counter-abuse, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Grady will work with the integrity community to develop a feature taxonomy of integrity praxis that connects unfavorable online outcomes to design and business choices, so that product managers could recognize these choices and prevent potential harm caused by products.

  • Morgan Boeger

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Morgan Boeger is a safety strategist with six years of experience in gaming and social media, and currently a trust & safety team member at Medal.tv. Morgan first entered the integrity field to fight abuse from bad actors targeting the platform where she first found community and an outlet to express herself online, and her work since then is centered around community and continuous improvement in how platforms identify and act against hate and threats to child safety.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Morgan will interview integrity professionals to profile who they are, how and why they came to this work, and their individual approaches in order to amplify voices and foster connection and community among the practitioners in the field.

  • Nichole Sessego

    Nichole Sessego

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Nichole Sessego is an integrity professional who has launched election and misinformation products and policies at some of the largest social media platforms with a focus on operations, as well as an Integrity Institute Founding Fellow. In 2019, Nichole was the Elections lead for CrowdTangle, a Meta-owned social listening tool, before joining Meta’s Misinformation Operations team. In 2021, she joined Twitter’s Launch team to focus on civic and misinformation products and policies.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Nichole will produce a content series featuring Institute members illuminating key trust and safety concepts through discussion of platform user questions you didn't even realize were about trust and safety.

  • Rebecca Thein

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Rebecca Thein is an experienced product, program and people manager at the intersection of society, responsible product development and accessible design. Rebecca was most recently a Senior Technical Program Manager at Twitter, where she oversaw the globalization efforts of civic and crisis response work, including the Brazil & US midterm elections, Covid misinformation and the conflict in Ukraine.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Rebecca will lend her expertise to the Institute’s external relations work and collaborate with staff on cultivating development and public presence opportunities for the Institute and its members.

  • Sarah Amos

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Sarah Amos is a former journalist turned product manager with nearly a decade of experience at the intersection of tech and media. Most recently she worked in Twitter’s Trust & Safety Team as a product manager for civic Integrity, building features to mitigate the harms of platform manipulation, misinformation and abuse during global election cycles. Before that Sarah founded and led the R&D department at the AI platform Dataminr.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Sarah will develop public programming that deepens the Institute’s external engagement and—through community–explores, debates, and educates the public about protecting the social internet.

  • Alice Goguen Hunsberger

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Alice Goguen Hunsberger specializes in human-centered user experiences for a diverse and global user-base. Over the last 13 years, she's led Trust & Safety, Policy, and Customer Experience Operations at two of the world's largest dating apps: OkCupid and Grindr.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow together with Talha Baig, Alice will continue producing the Trust in Tech podcast, which explores the world of the people who keep the internet safe and healthy: professionals in integrity, trust and safety and other adjacent fields.

  • Talha Baig

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (COMMUNITY)

    Talha Baig is co-founder of a YC backed stealth startup that empowers integrity teams to have more impact. Before that Talha spent three years at Meta as a Machine Learning Engineer working to reduce human, drugs, and weapon trafficking.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow together with Alice Goguen Hunsberger, Talha will continue producing the Trust in Tech podcast, which explores the world of the people who keep the internet safe and healthy: professionals in integrity, trust and safety and other adjacent fields.

  • Antonia Woodford

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Antonia Woodford is a product manager building new consumer experiences while safeguarding against technology’s abuse. At Meta, Antonia led the product team that fought misinformation across Facebook and Instagram, with a focus on global elections and critical events. At startups, she has worked to develop virtual hangout spaces for friends, broaden internet access in emerging markets, and grow a B2B e-commerce marketplace.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Antonia will lead the Institute’s working group on integrity best practices for early-stage companies, producing resources that startup founders and employees can use when first tackling trust and safety issues.

  • Glenn Ellingson

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Glenn Ellingson is a technologist specializing in the safety of online platforms. After leading various initiatives at Oracle, PayPal/eBay, and a number of smaller start-ups, Glenn supported civic integrity engineering teams at Facebook through the 2020 US election and other elections around the world, as well as Instagram’s Accurate Information team through the covid pandemic.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Glenn will continue leading the Institute’s elections integrity best practices working group (a component of the Institute’s Elections Integrity Program) to publish a set of guides for protecting elections across diverse internet platforms.

  • Matt Motyl

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Matt Motyl is an award-winning behavioral scientist who has spent the past 17 years studying cognitive biases, misinformation, and threats to democracies around the world. He led initiatives to improve recommendation algorithms to promote higher quality civic, health, and news content on social media. Matt is now a Senior Adviser at the Psychology of Technology Institute and University of Southern California Marshall School of Business’ Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Matt will partner with the Neely Center in building a social media index using nationally representative survey data to identify what types of positive and negative experiences users have on the most popular social media apps. Matt will write about his project periodically on Substack.

  • Sam Toizer

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Sam Toizer is a product leader deeply passionate about the intersection of online communication, civics, and democracy, with a proven track record of using product solutions to create safe and productive online spaces. Currently, Sam leads the moderation experiences team at Nextdoor. Prior to this, he spent eight years at Twitter, where he was the global product lead for election integrity and misinformation.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Sam will lead the efforts to create “Integrity 101” — a set of educational materials to empower product managers, engineers, and others to make their products safer.

  • Sasha Mathew

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Sasha Mathew is a lawyer with a master's in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School. She was a product policy lead at Twitter and previously worked on electoral integrity at Whatsapp. She has also worked with federal and state election and cybersecurity regulators in India and the US, and was an International Policy Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She currently leads Policy & Compliance at Concentrix, a global content moderation services company.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow, Sasha will explore what it means to build an integrity-oriented approach to regulatory compliance: one that balances platform values and user trust & safety, with compliance with existing and emerging platform regulation.

  • Arushi Saxena

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Arushi Saxena serves as the Head of GTM and Policy at DynamoFL, a seed-stage Y Combinator (W22) privacy & Generative AI startup. Previously, she led Product Marketing & GTM for Twitter's Trust & Safety team, with a specific focus on Information Integrity and Elections-related features. Prior to Twitter, Arushi was an Assembly Research Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Privacy Product Management Consultant for Consumer Reports Innovation Lab.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow together with David Evan Harris and Theodora Skeadas, Arushi will work with the community to develop legislative priorities and educate relevant stakeholders on these issues, including civil society and potentially policymakers.

  • David Evan Harris

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    David Evan Harris is Chancellor’s Public Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and Continuing Lecturer at the Haas School of Business. From 2018 to 2023, he worked at Facebook and then Meta on teams confronting some of the most challenging issues facing the company—civic integrity, misinformation and responsible AI.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow together with Arushi Saxena and Theodora Skeadas, David will work with the community to develop legislative priorities and educate relevant stakeholders on these issues, including civil society and potentially policymakers.

  • Theodora Skeadas

    2023 VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH & POLICY)

    Theodora Skeadas recently left Twitter, where she managed the Trust and Safety Council, managed a research hub within the Public Policy team, supported the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium, and managed a trusted partners program. Theodora is currently consulting with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Democratic Institute, and the Committee to Protect Journalists on a journalist safety tool, while also working part-time as the Executive Director of Cambridge Local First.

    As a 2023 Visiting Fellow together with Arushi Saxena and David Evan Harris, Theodora will work with the community to develop legislative priorities and educate relevant stakeholders on these issues, including civil society and potentially policymakers.