Jo Lukito

Josephine ("Jo") Lukito (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media and the Director of the Media & Democracy Data Cooperative. Jo’s work uses computational and machine learning approaches to study political language. She also studies data access for researchers and journalists.

Maggie Macdonald

Maggie Macdonald (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University. Her research interests are on congressional campaigns and elections, with focuses on strategic political communication online and campaign finance.  

Megan A. Brown 

Megan A. Brown is a PhD student at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her research is centered on the online information ecosystem. She studies political bias in algorithmic systems, the effect of platform governance and moderation policies on the spread of political content, and research infrastructure to support computational social science. Brown is a research affiliate with the Social Media Archive at the University of Michigan and an executive board member with the Media and Democracy Data Cooperative. Formerly, she was Sr. Research Engineer at the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University where she collected and maintained large-scale collections of social media and digital trace data for social science research. 

Cameron Hickey

Cameron Hickey is the Chief Executive Officer at the National Conference on Citizenship. He leads an effort to develop methodologies and tools for collecting and analyzing data to increase transparency about how large digital platforms impact society.

Hickey was formerly a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. As a fellow, he investigated the spread of mis- and dis-information on social media through the development of tools to identify and analyze problematic content. Hickey helped lead the Shorenstein Center’s Information Disorder Lab which monitored disinformation during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.

Previously, Hickey covered science and technology for the PBS NewsHour and NOVA with correspondent Miles O’Brien. Hickey has won a News and Documentary Emmy Award and a Newhouse Mirror Award for his journalism and was also a Knight Foundation Prototype Grantee for his junk news monitoring tool NewsTracker, and won a 2019 Brown Institute Magic Grant to investigate inauthentic activity on social media. His work has appeared on the PBS NewsHour, NOVA, Bill Moyers, American Experience, WNET, and The New York Times.

Kaitlyn Dowling

Kaitlyn Dowling is the Senior Research Analyst at ATI. Previously, she served as the Senior Editor in the Information Disorder Lab, housed in the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this role, she managed a team of researchers investigating and reporting on political mis- and disinformation spreading on social media leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Kaitlyn has also worked with a variety of organizations in executing their communications strategies, including Harvard Law School, the American Cancer Society, AARP, HSBC, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. 

Myra Miranda 

Myra Miranda is the Partnerships Manager at ATI.  She is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and managing external relationships with partners that seek to engage in misinformation efforts that impact their work.

Prior to joining ATI, Myra served as the California Civic Engagement Manager with NALEO Educational Fund, spearheading census, elections and COVID-19 campaigns to empower Latino communities. Previously, Myra assisted and led federal, state and local campaigns in key races since 2016. Myra graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Riverside.