Type: Public event

Webinar: Making Technology Work For Everyone: Empowering Civil Society and Technologists to Work Together to Shape our Future

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Date & time

May 20, 2025, 3:30-5:00 pm EDT

Location

This is a Virtual Event.

Join STPP for a webinar about the importance of bringing together technical experts with civil society organizations to produce technology and technology policy that serves the public interest. Learn about our approach to training the next generation of technologists to work with civil society both on the collaborative design of technology, and on building civic capacity for participating in tech-related public and policy discourse.

Featuring:

  • Shobita Parthasarathy, PhD, Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy program
  • Molly Kleinman, PhD, Managing Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy program
  • Trevor Odelberg, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD & STPP Certificate '24, AAAS/IEEE U.S. Congressional Fellow
  • Divya Ramesh, Computer Science PhD Candidate, STPP Certificate student, Mirzayan Fellow
  • Annabella Vidrio, Dance BFA, Gender and Health BA, Public Policy minor '24, Policy Analyst at We the People MI
  • Melvin Washington II, MPP & STPP Certificate '18, Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Planning at the Mellon Foundation