Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and workers.
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Ruchika Joshi is a Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, where she develops technically rigorous solutions for industry […]
In every era of rapid technological change, there come moments of deliberation: wait for policy or lead through practice?
What happens when students are more than subjects of the conversation? This year, Siegel supported the journey of three students from The Bell to SXSW EDU to help elevate student voice and representation at a conference focused on the future of education.
We sat down with Kareem Farah from Modern Classrooms to learn more about the their instructional model; how and why the organization works with individual teachers; how the initiative plans to scale its approach through district partnerships; and the impact of changing instructional practice for teachers, students, and communities.
We sat down with Brent Maddin of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at ASU, and George Vinton and Kelly Anguiano of Common Group to learn more about the role that administrative systems play in whether, when, and how schools choose to adopt innovative models; the ways in which these technological systems could be redesigned to help facilitate innovation; and the opportunities for both the supply side and the demand side of the market to develop solutions for making administrative systems in K-12 education more flexible.
We may be a small team, but our reach is mighty. Over the past quarter, we’ve traveled across the country and around the globe to seek out new perspectives, fresh solutions, and burgeoning insights that will shape our work in 2025.
Siegel’s annual Ask Me Anything webinar is an opportunity for our friends and partners to learn about our plans for the year ahead and ask questions about our work and approach. This year’s event, held virtually on Thursday, January 30, brought together over 200 attendees.
As part of our effective grantmaking strategy and knowledge and impact work, Siegel collects and engages with feedback from its grantees and partners. During 2024, we commissioned an independent author to conduct confidential interviews with seven grantee and partner organizations, representing a range of organizational sizes, focuses, and ages, complemented by a non-anonymous end-of-year survey conducted by our in-house Knowledge and Impact team.
Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist, exploring the intersections of technology, society, and public good. They recently sat down with Siegel Research Manager Madison Snider to discuss the interests that lead them to their interdisciplinary work and why collaboration is so important to it.