David Abel
An award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker, David Abel has covered war, coups, terrorism, natural disasters, a pandemic, poverty, climate change, and much more. He has been a writer for many years at The Boston Globe, where for the past decade he has covered climate change and other environmental issues. In 2014, Abel and his colleagues […]
Amy Geller
Amy M. Geller is an award-winning creative producer and filmmaker whose 20+ year career includes fiction and documentaries for broadcast, educational media, industrials, and branded content. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, the BBC, Documentary Channel, Turner Classic Movies and YES Satellite TV in Israel and is available on Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon, Tubi […]
Eric Gordon
Professor Gordon studies civic technology and public participation in cities. He is the author (or editor) of five books and over 50 articles on participatory urban technology, including The Urban Spectator (Dartmouth, 2010), Net Locality (Blackwell, 2011), Civic Media (MIT Press, 2016), Ludics (Palgrave, 2021), and Meaningful Inefficiencies (Oxford, 2020). In addition to his scholarship, […]
Kannan Thiruvengadam
Kannan Thiruvengadam grew up in the foothills of a sacred mountain in southern Tamil Nadu, in a farming family where life was inextricably linked with land. After an early career in technology, he returned to his agrarian roots — this time in East Boston, Massachusetts, where he has lived for over two decades. In 2015, […]
Chris Wells
Chris Wells worked in environmental politics before attending graduate school at the University of Washington, where he focused on political communication and early social media. In his research, Chris uses a variety of methods, both conventional and computational, to study how news media coverage takes shape, how citizens learn about politics, and how they choose […]