Fritz Family Fellows Program
The Fritz Family Fellows Program is a joint effort among Georgetown’s three campuses and nine schools to harness technology for the betterment of humanity. The fellowship program aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.
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2021-2022 Fellows
Past Fritz Fellows
Maddox Angerhofer
Undergraduate Fellow
Maddox Angerhofer is a member of the class of 2023 in the School of Foreign Service, majoring in international politics (security) and minoring in Persian. She is excited to join the Georgetown Ethics Lab as an Undergraduate Fritz Family Fellow with the project From Control to Care, studying how existing privacy and cyberlaw policy shapes sociotechnical systems.
Max Brossy
Masters Fellow
Max Brossy has five years of experience in local politics and education. He has interned for the DC Council and a state senator in Los Angeles and worked for a community college foundation in Los Angeles County. Prior to that, he worked on multiple political campaigns throughout Los Angeles. His graduate studies have focused on economics, public management, geopolitics of energy, US defense policy making, urban law and policy, and innovation and public policy.
Max is from Los Angeles. He graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where his undergraduate studies focused on classical western philosophy. In his spare time, he enjoys all things Star Wars, reading, traveling, and getting spoiled by his wife’s extraordinary cooking.
Shriya Annamaneni
Undergraduate Fellow
Shriya is a sophomore in the College, majoring in Government with a minor in Statistics. As a Fritz Fellow, she is working with the Massive Data Institute and the Georgetown University Law Center on the Civil Justice Data Commons project, creating a repository for civil legal data in order to better understand eviction and debt. Outside of the classroom, Shriya also enjoys singing and running.
Paul-Emmanuel Courtines
Undergraduate Fellow
Paul-Emmanuel Courtines is a senior at Georgetown pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science and Government. In summer 2021, he was a software-engineering intern at Google Life Sciences (Verily) working on Project Baseline, a new clinical trials platform. He has previously interned at a London-based natural-language processing startup, TrueAI and currently serves as the Vice-President for IT at Students of Georgetown Inc., the largest student-run non profit in the US. As a Fritz Fellow, Paul-Emmanuel works on a joint project between the Massive Data Institute and CSET studying scientific disinformation and misrepresentation of academic findings in AI, nanotech, quantum and other technology topics.
Alexander Lin
Undergraduate Fellow
Alex is a junior in the School of Foreign Service majoring International Politics and minoring in Statistics. He made his big leap from purely qualitative to data-driven research while participating in the Raines Fellowship program, during which he examined US-China narrative wars amidst the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of computational linguistics. As a result, Alex is particularly fascinated with the critical juncture between data and the social sciences, as well as how this space can transform our understanding of ourselves and the people around us. Beyond his research interests, he edits the science and technology section of The Caravel runs Georgetown’s Chinese Student Alliance.
As a Fritz Fellow, Alex is investigating the sources of scientific misinformation, the patterns of their proliferation, and their broader societal impact. He is really excited to learn new skills in the realm of data analysis and to uncover any other promises that this research experience holds.
Natasha Dolmon
Masters Fellow
Natasha Dolmon is a first year graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Emergency & Disaster Management at the School of Continuing Studies. She is collaborating with the state of Connecticut to assess the impact of, and determine the readiness of agencies to respond to, climate change-driven natural disasters on state-owned assets. Her fellowship is through the Massive Data Institute and the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. Previously, she has worked as a project manager with federal and municipal consulting firms in Washington DC.
Katie Wells
Post-doc Fellow
Katie Wells is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, and Technology program. She is a geographer who writes about the changing relationship between tech, labor, and cities. She has published findings in academic journals such as Urban Geography, Environment and Planning A, and Antipode, written for popular outlets such as Public Books and CityLab, and discussed the real-time impacts of her research in 60+ media stories in The Washington Post, NPR, ABC National News, CNN, Wired, Reuters, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her studies have been cited by Axios, USA Today, Politico, and Business Insider. A native of Canton, Ohio, she has lived in D.C. for 17 years. Email Katie here: kw731@georgetown.edu
Jack Zhang
Undergraduate Fellow
Jack is a senior in the College majoring in computer science and political economy with a minor in math. In the past summer, Jack worked with consultants to provide digital transformation solutions implementing NoSQL databases. As a Fritz Fellow, Jack works with the Massive Data Institute (MDI) and the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) to explore how scholarly articles may have been misrepresented to help spread misinformation. In his free time, Jack enjoys hiking and exploring new restaurants around the DMV.
Beba Cibralic
Ph.D. Fellow
Beba is a Ph.D candidate in philosophy at Georgetown University focusing on the philosophy and politics of emerging technology and artificial intelligence, online influence, and grey zone warfare. As a Fritz Fellow, Beba is exploring whether and how speaker identity is relevant in assessing influence campaigns. Her research is supervised by Professors Maggie Little and Laura Donohue, and she is working with the NatSec360 Research Team. Beba’s dissertation examines the ethical, political, and legal status of online influence efforts. She is also co-authoring a textbook for MIT Press on the philosophy of machine agency. In 2022, Beba will be a visitor at Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and at Australian National University’s Humanising Machine Intelligence Project.
Previously, Beba worked as a Semester Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and participated in the Stanford US-Russia Forum, where she researched US-Russia cyber cooperation. Beba holds a BA in philosophy and political science from Wellesley College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), an MA in China Studies from Peking University, where she studied as a Yenching Academy Fellow, and was a Visiting Student at the University of Oxford. She speaks Bosnian fluently and studies Russian (low advanced) and Spanish (high intermediate).
Kyle Jacobson
Masters Fellow
Kyle is a student in the Law Center’s Master of Law and Technology program. He was born and raised in Lewisburg, PA. Kyle learned to make a website at age 12 and—after jobs delivering newspapers, providing janitorial service, prepping and delivering food, teaching youth sports, and performing clerical tasks—he created and ran a small web design and development consultancy. He obtained a BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University, where he authored an honors thesis focusing on Sartre’s “being-for-others”. Kyle spent the last 12 years as a full-time software developer and manager for several small- and medium-sized startups.
As a Fritz Fellow, Kyle will be conducting research on the topic of software development professionalism, focusing on the feasibility of enacting professionalism regimes and the effects they’d be likely to produce. This work will involve an examination of existing research on professionalism regimes more broadly and on previous and contemporary professional organizations, attempts at enacting licensing regimes, educational standards, and other work done towards professionalizing the software development vocation. Kyle’s work will attempt to identify areas for further research as well as impediments to and reasons for skepticism towards software development professionalism as a solution to problems stemming from the proliferation of digital technologies.
Michael Kranzlein
Ph.D. Fellow
Michael Kranzlein is a computer science PhD student at Georgetown University working on natural language processing and computational linguistics. His work focuses on modelling language meaning for computers and improving the performance of text-based models via calibration. As a Fritz Family Fellow, Michael is collaborating with faculty of the Department of Computer Science, the Law Center, and the Massive Data Institute on the development of automated systems for detecting relevant linguistic ambiguities in legal texts. This work is informed by his experience working on legal AI at Ernst & Young and his expertise in computational semantics and calibration.
Before Georgetown, Michael earned a master’s degree in computer science from Kennesaw State University and bachelor’s degrees in computer science and French from Belmont University.
Meera Kolluri
Masters Fellow
Meera Kolluri is a former Program Assistant and current Graduate Fritz Fellow at Ethics Lab, where she conducts research and programming to support their Humane Technology Initiative. Kolluri is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Technology at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown University. Her academic focus lies at the intersection of ethical design, systems of surveillance, and technology policy. Her current projects assess methods and consequences of monetizing the human body through the use of technology. Kolluri advocates intersectional justice and equity practices at the forefront of her work. She aims to create systems of accountability and accessibility to ensure just technological innovation. Through the Fritz Family Fellowship, Kolluri’s work will examine the intersections of surveillance technology, cyberlaw, and design justice in various sectors, with the goal of supplementing theories of control with theories of care. Kolluri earned a dual Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Scripps College in Legal Studies and Politics.
Shuo Liu
Ph.D. Fellow
Shuo is a PhD student at Georgetown University in computer science. His current research interest lies in the area of fault-tolerant distributed optimization algorithms and implementations, including distributed machine learning, specifically Byzantine fault-tolerant models. Prior to that, he obtained his master’s degree in computer science at Georgetown, and undergraduate degree in mathematics at Fudan University, China. His master’s thesis studied a type of possible privacy exposures of users on social media.
J.J. Naddeo
Ph.D. Fellow
In collaboration with the Beeck Center and the Massive Data Institute J.J. is working with the Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) to identify potential racial disparities in incarcerations in local criminal justice systems. While not working at the JIL, J.J. is working on completing his PhD in Economics at Georgetown University, and consulting at the World Bank. His research utilizes spatial data and state of the art econometric tools to answer questions focusing on political economics. Prior to moving to D.C., J.J. finished his bachelor’s degree in physics at Rutgers-University Camden in Camden, NJ. He enjoys spending his free time camping and canoeing with friends and family.
Brian Taylor
Undergraduate Fellow
Hailing from Middletown, NJ, Brian is a senior at Georgetown completing a dual major in Government and Mathematics. At Georgetown and as a data intern at the RNC, he has sought to apply statistics and data analysis to the political arena. In his capacity as a Fritz Family Fellow, Brian is working with Professor Michael Bailey to explore the relationship between political moderation and electability by analyzing candidate social media and campaign websites in conjunction with electoral results. In his free time, he enjoys running and playing the drums.
Joyce Yang
Undergraduate Fellow
Joyce is a junior in the School of Foreign Service majoring in Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a minor in Computer Science. She first got involved with research on Tech Policy issues as a Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellow where she worked with Dr. Meg Leta Jones. Joyce has done research analyzing congressional hearings on Big Tech, policy and implementation surrounding contact tracing apps, and the history of Silicon Valley. Outside of the classroom, she also enjoys working with graphic design as creative director at Bossier Magazine and learning to beekeep with Hoya Hive. As a Fritz Fellow, Joyce is working with the Ethics Lab and the Communication, Culture, and Technology Department to better understand the ways in which existing systems of surveillance and cyberlaw policies uphold norms of control. Additionally, she and the team are utilizing design justice principles to think of ways of shifting these harmful systems.
Obinna (Obi) Iloani
Law Fritz Family Fellow
Obi is a first-year law student at Georgetown. He was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and graduated cum laude from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. While pursuing his undergraduate degree in Political Science, he had the opportunity to intern on Capitol Hill. There he worked directly with Congressman Gene Green’s Communications Director where he developed an interest in technology policy. After graduating, Obi worked at CS Disco, a legal technology start-up, and then as a litigation paralegal in his hometown, before deciding to apply to The Georgetown University Law Center and the Tech Scholars Program. Obi is spending the summer conducting independent research concerning the applications of facial recognition software and its use on public transportation.
Romina Montellano Morales
Law Fritz Family Fellow
Romina grew up in Austin, Texas. In 2018 she graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Sociology and Humanities. Romina is currently a rising 3L at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her hobbies include cooking, ballet, and caring for her plants. Romina is spending her summer working with The Center on Privacy and Technology and The Institute for Technology Law and Policy to conduct research and analysis regarding the use of surveillance and data-sharing in immigration enforcement.
