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The project is supported by five international experts, who have led highly successful evidence-informed media literacy initiatives that address the problem of misinformation at the local, national, and global levels. Their guidance and extensive experience supports the project team and partner organisations in the design and implementation of new targeted media literacy initiatives.
Joel Breakstone
Joel Breakstone is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), an independent nonprofit organisation that provides free curriculum and learning resources to assist young people to be more discerning consumers of the information they encounter online. From 2013 to 2023, Joel was the director of the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG). In his current role, Joel leads DIG's efforts to research, develop, and disseminate free curriculum and assessments. This work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and E.W. Scripps. Joel completed a BA in History at Brown University, a MA in Liberal Studies at Dartmouth College, and a PhD at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
Sam Gregory
Sam Gregory is an award-winning human rights advocate, technologist, and innovative leader with over 25 years’ experience at the intersections of video, technology, civic participation, and media practices. As the Executive Director of WITNESS, which helps people use video and technology for human rights, Sam leads the organisation’s five-year strategic plan to “Fortify the Truth” and is an internationally recognized expert on smartphone witnessing, including in social media, citizen journalism, and live-streaming contexts. He is a trusted authority on new forms of mis/disinformation such as deepfakes as well as innovations in preserving trust, authenticity, and evidence in an era of increasing audiovisual communication. Sam has testified before both houses of the US Congress and is a TED speaker on how to prepare better for deceptive AI. Sam holds an MA in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, attending as a Kennedy Memorial Scholar, and a BA from the University of Oxford.
Stephanie Hankey
Stephanie Hankey is a designer, strategist and social entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience exploring the social, political and environmental impact of technology on society. Stephanie co-founded Tactical Tech in 2003 which is now the leading international NGO at the forefront of public education on digital and media literacy. She is the co-curator of The Glass Room, an award winning touring exhibition, now shown in over 70 countries, enabling over 500,000 people worldwide to reflect on their relationship with technology and its impact on their environment. She was an Ashoka Fellow, a Visiting Industry Associate at Oxford University and a ‘22 Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Stephanie has an MA from the Royal College of Art and is dual-professor of design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and a mentor to the New European Bauhaus.
Alison Head
Alison Head is an information scientist and social science researcher. She is the founder and director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a national research institute that investigates how college students conceptualise and operationalise research tasks for coursework and use in their everyday lives. Since 2008, PIL researchers have interviewed and surveyed more than 27,000 Americans, including 22,500 college students at over 98 US four-year public and private universities and colleges and two-year community colleges. During 2023-24, PIL is conducting a year-long study on how Americans formulate their understanding and attitudes about climate change in a divided nation. Alison has a PhD in library and information science from the University of California at Berkeley where she also received her BA. She has held joint appointments as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, the metaLAB (at) Harvard as well as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Purdue University, University of Pittsburgh, the University of Washington, and Stanford University.
Paul Mihailidis
Paul Mihailidis is a professor of civic media and journalism and Special Advisor to the provost at Emerson College in Boston. He is founding program director of the MA in Media Design, and faculty chair and director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. Dr Mihailidis's academic interests in civic media and community engagement are closely connected to his leadership work in higher education. As a scholar with an established research record, Dr Mihailidis has collaborated across disciplines to explore how civic media interventions can support inclusive, just, and equitable futures. He has consulted around the world on news and media literacies as tools for civic empowerment and meaningful engagement in communities.
