Fellow rachel berkman klein center
“Transformative Media Organizing Project.” 2015-2017: LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund, Co-Principal Investigator, with Research Action Design (RAD), $250k to co-design transformative media organizing work at the intersection of LGBTQ & Two-Spirit rights and racial justice. “Community Reporting of Algorithmic Systemic Harms (CRASH) project.” 2020-2021: Sloan Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation joint grant, Co-Principal Investigator, with Joy Buolamwini, Camile Francois, and the Algorithmic Justice League, $300k to help prevent, report, and redress algorithmic harms. Kellett ’47 Award, in recognition of sustained commitment to creating a more welcoming environment at MIT for LGBTQ+ people.Ģ018: Resisting Reduction Essay Competition Prize Winner, Journal of Design and Science.Ģ010: Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.Ģ010: United Nations World Summit Award for best Mobile Content, M-inclusion and Empowerment category (Co-recipient with the VozMob Popular Communication Team). SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORSĢ011–2020: Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.Ģ016-2019: Mitsui Career Development Professorship.Ģ019: John S.W. Media studies design studies social movement studies participatory research & design methods information & communications policy public interest technology. M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication Communications, 2003.Ī.B., Harvard College Music, Technology, and Culture (Magna Cum Laude), 1999. Doctoral Thesis: “Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement.” Co-chairs: Manuel Castells and Larry Gross.
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Communication, August 2010. Knight Media Policy Fellow, New America Foundation EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California She focuses not only on web and mobile privacy and security, but also on emerging technologies in healthcare, Internet of Things, digital advertising, and smart voice assistants.Director of Research & Design, Algorithmic Justice League ( ajl.org)įaculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTSĪssociate Professor of Civic Media, Mitsui Career Development Professor, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyĪssistant Professor of Civic Media, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technologyįellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University She explores how contextual and human factors, including trust, heuristics and biases, as well as behavioral interventions, such as personalized nudges, commitment devices, and privacy-enhancing tools, affect users’ behaviors and decisions. Alisa applies her expertise in behavioral and experimental economics, decision-making, behavior change, and choice architecture, and experience in survey and interview design, online, lab and field experiments, and experience sampling to investigate privacy and security attitudes and behaviors of regular and vulnerable populations of online users (such as older adults, employees of civil society organizations, domestic workers and non-primary user groups).
degree in Economics at the School of Social Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. Serge Egelman, and the Privacy Economics Experiments Lab (PEEX) at Carnegie Mellon University, under the direction of Prof. She is a member of the Berkeley Laboratory for Usable and Experimental Security (BLUES), under the direction of Dr. Project: Developing a Common Vocabulary around Privacy and Security Concepts with Elderly UsersĪlisa Frik, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the Usable Security and Privacy research group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the University of California, Berkeley.