The AI Spotlight Series

KAREN HAO
Lead Designer, AI Spotlight Series
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She was formerly a foreign correspondent covering China’s technology industry for the Wall Street Journal and a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. Her work is regularly taught in universities and cited by governments.

She has received numerous accolades for her coverage, including an ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30. In 2019, her weekly newsletter, The Algorithm, was nominated for The Webby Awards. In 2020, she won a Front Page Award for co-producing the podcast In Machines We Trust. Prior to Tech Review, she was a tech reporter and data scientist at Quartz. She received her bachelor's in mechanical engineering and minored in energy studies at MIT.

LAM THUY VO
Co-designer, AI Spotlight Series
Reporter, The Markup

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is a reporter with The Markup and an associate professor of data journalism at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she was a journalist at BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, and NPR's Planet Money. 

She has also worked as an educator, scholar, and public speaker for a decade, developing newsroom-wide training programs for institutions including Al Jazeera America and The Wall Street Journal; workshops for journalists across the U.S. as well as from Asia, Latin America, and Europe; and semester-long courses for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She's brought her research about misinformation and the impact of algorithms on our political views to Harvard, Georgetown, MIT, Columbia,  Data & Society, and other institutions. In 2019, she published a book about her empirical approach to finding stories in data from the Internet for No Starch Press.

GABRIEL SEAN GEIGER
Co-designer, AI Spotlight Series
Investigative Reporter, Lighthouse Reports

Gabriel Geiger is an Amsterdam-based investigative journalist specializing in surveillance and algorithmic accountability reporting. His work often grapples with issues of inequality from a global lens.

He is currently a retainer at Lighthouse Reports and was previously a weekly contributor for VICE’s Motherboard. His reporting can be found in VICE, The Guardian, openDemocracy, and the New Internationalist.

GIDEON LICHFIELD
Co-designer, AI Spotlight Series
Editor

Gideon Lichfield began his career as a science and technology writer at The Economist. He then took foreign postings in Mexico City, Moscow, and Jerusalem before moving to New York City in 2009. He was one of the founding editors at Quartz, then editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review and, most recently, of WIRED. While at MIT, he also edited post-pandemic speculative fiction for MIT Press. He splits his time between New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.

TOM SIMONITE
Co-designer, AI Spotlight Series
Senior Editor, WIRED

Tom Simonite is a senior editor at WIRED in San Francisco. He edits coverage of the technology industry. He previously spent six years reporting on artificial intelligence for WIRED. He has also written and edited technology coverage while on staff at MIT Technology Review and New Scientist magazine in London.

BOYOUNG LIM
Senior Editor and AI Network Manager, Pulitzer Center

Boyoung Lim is a senior editor at the Pulitzer Center. She formerly worked as a reporter at the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (KCIJ) - Newstapa. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Before becoming a journalist, she worked as a police officer with a focus on cybercrime. She graduated from the Korean National Police University majoring in criminal investigation and holds a master's degree in international studies from Seoul National University.

MARIA KARIENOVA
AI Engagement Manager, Pulitzer Center

In the past seven years, Maria has actively engaged in development work, specialising in civil society and community engagement, public outreach, and inclusivity strategies. She has led EngageMedia’s digital rights initiatives in Indonesia, covering issues such as hate speech, freedom of religious beliefs, and emerging technologies. Her most recent work is driving civil society participation in Artificial Intelligence Governance in Indonesia.

Maria holds a postgraduate degree in Development Studies from SOAS University of London. Aside from international development, Maria is also concerned about the discourse on decolonisation and the politics of feminism in the rest of the world.

KATHERINE JOSSI
Editorial and Communications Assistant, Pulitzer Center

Katherine Jossi is currently an Editorial and Communications Assistant at the Pulitzer Center. She was previously an Outreach and Communications Intern at the Pulitzer Center from 2021-2022. She is a recent graduate of Beloit College with a bachelor's in history and political science.

She was a photo and graphics editor at her college newspaper, The Round Table, and previously interned with Rewire out of Twin Cities Public Television. 

MARINA WALKER GUEVARA
Executive Editor, Pulitzer Center

Before joining the Center, Walker Guevara was deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She managed two of the largest collaborations of reporters in journalism history: The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data.

Walker Guevara was instrumental in developing the model of large-scale media collaboration, persuading reporters who used to compete with one another instead to work together, share resources and amplify their reach and impact.