Shannon McGregor is an assistant professor at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, and a senior researcher with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life - both at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research addresses the role of social media and their data in political processes, with a focus on political communication, journalism, public opinion, and gender. Her published work examines how three groups – political actors, the press, and the public – use social media in regards to politics, how that social media use impacts their behavior, and how the policies and actions of social media companies in turn impacts political communication on their sites. She takes up diverse methodologies like surveys, experiments, and large-scale computational and network analysis, as well as qualitative methods like in-depth interviews, to understand political events in socially networked digital spaces. Her work aims to bring insights about and new theories of emerging political communication in hybrid media and political systems. Her work has been published in the Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Political Communication, Journalism, and Information, Communication & Society, and I co-edited a book (with Dr. Talia Stroud), Digital Discussions: How Big Data Informs Political Communication.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Impact Officer, Adam Neufeld oversees the work of ADL’s Education, Center on Extremism, Center for Technology and Society and Center for Antisemitism Research. He also spearheads innovation and strategy between the Centers and the organization at large. Adam joined ADL in early 2018 as the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation after serving as the Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration. In addition to being the chief operating officer at the 11,500-person agency, he also helped start new initiatives including a group of coders and designers called 18F to work on the government’s most difficult technology issues, an office of evaluation science and innovative financing for real estate transformation. Prior to GSA, he worked in other agencies, including as a lawyer. He also was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., where he served government and nonprofit clients. Adam has a BS in Neuroscience from Brown University, and a JD from Harvard Law School.