Kathy Pham | Founder, Executive Director | kathy_pham@hks.harvard.edu
Kathy is a Fellow and Faculty of Product Management and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School. Additionally, Kathy holds appointments as an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center where she co-founded and runs the Ethical Tech Working Group and Fellow at Mozilla where she leads the Responsible Computer Science Challenge and co-leads the Mozilla Fix the Internet Incubator. Kathy founded Women in Product Boston, and was on the organizing committee for ProductTank Boston. She has sat on the advisory boards of Anitab.org Silicon Valley, and the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck initiative. Previously, Kathy built products and ran product teams at Google, IBM, and the United States Digital Service at the White House.
Nagela Nukuna | Playbook Co-editor, Research Assistant
Nagela was a Master in Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School and MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Nagela is a product manager at the United States Digital Service.
Medha Patki | playbook co-editor; Research Assistant; Course Assistant
Medha is a graduate of the Master in Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Emily Chi | Co-Lead Product Management and the Public Interest summer Convening; Research and Course Assistant
Emily is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School MPP program. Emily has worked with various Bay Area tech companies to build ethical and consumer privacy-centered products. She has also worked with local government agencies in Toulouse, France and Boston, MA to conduct user research and launch online tools for the community. She is most interested in understanding how to improve product design and decision-making to increase access, equity, and justice. Emily is the co-lead of the Product Management and Public Interest Summer Convening 2020.
Emily Guo | Co-Lead Product Management and the Public Interest summer Convening; Research and Course assistant
Emily recently graduated from a dual degree between MIT Sloan's MBA program and Harvard Kennedy School's MPA in International Development. Prior to school, she worked in Kenya for an agricultural social enterprise; her work was focused on the Innovations Team's tech portfolio, which included scaling mobile repayment for farmers and piloting tablets for precision agriculture. She is currently a Senior Product Manager on Zillow's Rentals team, where she is interested in creating user-centered products that make the rental search process fairer, less biased, and more transparent. Emily is the co-lead of the Product Management and Public Interest Summer Convening 2020.
Sahil Joshi | playbook co-editor; Research Assistant
Sahil is a MPA/MBA graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Sahil led Product and Pretzels, and the case study for Product Management and the Department of Education
Isabel Schunemann | Research Assistant
Isabel is a MPA/MBA graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Isabel led Product and Pretzels, and the case study for Product Management and the Department of Education.
Santiago Melo | Research Assistant
Santiago is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon. He was an MPA/MBA student at the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to school, Santiago worked at Acumen where invested in technology-enabled businesses that aim to tackle poverty in Latin America. Most recently, Santiago worked researching emerging technologies at The Engine and as product manager at Amazon.
Hannah Masuga | Course Assistant
Hannah is a Senior Manager, Data Platforms, at the New York Times. She was an MPP student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Ayush Chakravarty | Course Assistant
Ayush is a Product Manager on search.gov at Ad Hoc LCC. He was an MPP student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Kemi Akenzua | Course Assistant
Kemi was a Senior at Harvard College studying Technology, Information, and Society when she joined as the Course Assistant for Product Management and Society.
Ann Bruton | Course Assistant
Ann is a Senior Associate at the Center for Public Impact. She was an MPP student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.