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We are thrilled to announce the 2017 cohort for the Berkman Klein Assembly pilot program launching January 2017! The cohort is made up of seventeen diverse participants with deep experience working on a wide range of areas across the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations. Click to see a summary of the 2017 cohort! 

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We  are thrilled to announce the 2017 cohort for the Berkman Klein Assembly pilot program launching in January. The program gathers developers and tech industry professionals for a rigorous three-week course at Harvard University, followed by a twelve-week collaborative development period to explore hard problems with running code.

The program is designed as an exciting opportunity to assemble a diverse group tasked with tackling a current challenge at the intersection of code and policy. In 2017, this challenge focuses on the question: How do we move beyond a world where virtually every computing device and network is insecure?  

The 2017 cohort is made up of seventeen diverse participants with deep experience working on a wide range of areas across the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations. See below for a summary of the 2017 cohort! Participants include developers, leaders, and managers from Google, Cisco, UNICEF, Akamai, and Square, along with researchers and Ph.D. candidates from MIT and the University of London. 

The pilot will be launching on January 3, 2017. For more information about the program and individuals involved, visit the Berkman Klein Assembly website. To get in touch with any questions you might have, please feel free to email us at info@berkmanassembly.org. 

The 2017 Berkman Klein Assembly Cohort

Full bios of the cohort available here: http://brk.mn/Assembly2017

Abhishek (Bobo) Bose-Kolanu
Research Practioner; Ph.D. Candidate in Duke University's Literature Program

Nomi Conway
Product Manager on the Risk & Security Team at Square

Jeff Dunn
Outreach and Education Manager at Google

Nathan Freitas
Founder and Development Lead for The Guardian Project; Director of Technology at Tibet Action Institute; Berkman Klein Fellow

John Hess
Chief Data Scientist and Lead Engineer at KnowledgeHound; Policy Wonk; Entreprenuer 

Peter Hong
Harvard Business School Student

Darius Jahandarie
Senior Researcher in the Safety Engineering Group at Akamai Technologies
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Aditi Joshi
ISP Fellow at Yale Law School

Chu Ka-Cheong
Software Engineer; Technologist and Activist

Rachel Kalmar
Data scientist and community organizer; Berkman Klein Center Fellow

Bao Kham Chau
SaaS Software Engineer at Cisco Systems; ASP Fellow at MIT

Nadine Nagel
Chief Security Officer at BWI (German IBM subsidiary)

Nadya Peek
Postdoctoral Researcher in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms

J.M. Porup
Freelance National Security and Cybersecurity Reporter

Thyla van der Merwe
PhD Candidate in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security at Royal Holloway, University of London

Evan Wheeler
Chief Technology Officer at UNICEF's Global Innovation Centre

Clark Wood
Associate Technical Staff in the Cyber System Assessments Group at MIT Lincoln Labs