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%h2 Faculty & Staff

%h3 Edward Saperia
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%a{:href => "mailto:ed@newspeak.house"} ed@newspeak.house
•
%a{:href => "https://twitter.com/edsaperia"} @edsaperia
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%a{:href => "https://tinyletter.com/edsaperia"} newsletter
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Edward is dean of Newspeak House, responsible for setting its research direction as well as the day-to-day running of the college. His area of study is infrastructure for organising and network development, and he spends his time trying to connect up bits of civil society, or making tools to do so: chair
%a{:href => "https://centrefordemocracy.org.uk/"}>  Centre for Democracy
, board member
%a{:href => "https://www.compassonline.org.uk/"}>  Compass
, director
%a{:href => "https://civicai.uk/"}>  Civic AI Observatory
, steward
%a{:href => "https://docs.plus"}>  docs.plus
, co-author
%a{:href => "https://www.reorganise.work/"}>  Reorganise
, co-founder
%a{:href => "https://data-collective.org.uk/"}>  Data Collective
, co-founder
%a{:href => "https://www.techforgoodorganisers.uk/"}>  Tech for Good Organisers Network
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%h3 Matt Stempeck
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%a{:href => "mailto:matt@civictech.guide"} matt@civictech.guide
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%a{:href => "https://mattstempeck.com"} mattstempeck.com
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Matt Stempeck is the librarian of Newspeak House. He curates the
%a{:href => "https://directory.civictech.guide/"}  Civic Tech Field Guide
, the most comprehensive collection of democracy tech projects anywhere. He helps the college learn what's worked, what hasn't, and how not to be the latter, and also help initiatives to connect into related work being done across the field.
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Matt's professional background includes stints as Microsoft's Director of Civic Technology, Hillary Clinton's Director of Digital Mobilization, and MIT Media Lab's Center for Civic Media's leftover-catering-consuming Master's student. He's based in Lisbon, Portugal, and will panel for travel.

%h3.profile-title Dr Zarinah Agnew
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Lecturer in Collective Behaviour
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%a{:href => "mailto:zarinah@newspeak.house"} zarinah@newspeak.house
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%a{:href => "http://www.zarinahagnew.com"} zarinahagnew.com
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%a{:href => "https://twitter.com/zarinahagnew"} @zarinahagnew
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Zarinah is a neuroscientist by training. After spending over a decade in academia, they left to study the science of groups of brains - that is, humans in collectivity.
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Alongside their work with the college, Zarinah runs three nonprofits aimed at experimental aspects of society, collective transformation and para-institutions. The
%a{:href => "https://www.socialobservatory.space"} Social Science Observatory
is dedicated to the study of social science in the wild,
%a{:href => "https://www.alternativejustices.com/"} Alternative Justices
works towards abolitionist community-based harm prevention and response, and
%a{:href => "https://www.districtcommons.org/"} District Commons
engineers experimental spaces where humans can ‘be otherwise’. Together, these strands allow both the prefiguration of new social configurations, as well as the study of their transformational potential.

%h3.profile-title Dr Joshua Becker
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Lecturer in Collective Intelligence
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Joshua Becker is an Assistant Professor at the UCL School of Management with 15 years experience as a practising mediator. Joshua researches collective intelligence with an emphasis on group decision-making and their teaching at UCL includes a module on Negotiation and a module on Technology and Collective Intelligence. Their research has been published in outlets including Science, Management Science, and Harvard Business Review. Joshua received a PhD in Communication from the University in Pennsylvania and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Kellogg School of Management.
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Prior to graduate school, they worked professionally in mediation and communication training and has completed hundreds of mediation sessions including personal disputes, employer/employee conflict, and decision facilitation. Joshua also has deep experience in community building and currently serves on the board of trustees for Sunday Assembly London. In 2023, Joshua was ranked among the "Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors" by popular MBA blog Poets & Quants.

%h3.profile-title Theodore Keloglou
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Lecturer in Open Source
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%a{:href => "mailto:zf@sirodoht.com"} zf@sirodoht.com
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%a{:href => "https://nutcroft.com/"} nutcroft.com
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%a{:href => "https://github.com/sirodoht"} @sirodoht
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Theodore Keloglou has ten years of professional experience in building
software, mostly in startups and small companies, across different industries.
He is interested in how people can use technology to govern themselves,
organise society, and distribute power in a fair way.
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He convenes
%a{:href => "https://chaitinschool.org/"}>  Chaitin School
, a software engineering community in London, England. He has built
%a{:href => "https://mataroa.blog/"}>  mataroa.blog
, a privacy-first blogging platform and started
%a{:href => "https://laniakeabooks.org/"}>  Laniakea Books
, a public domain publishing house. He has written
%a{:href => "https://laniakeabooks.org/books/letters-from-prison/"}>  “Letters from Prison”
, a book on societal freedom. He blogs at
%a{:href => "https://nutcroft.com/"}>  nutcroft.com
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%h3.profile-title James Moulding
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Lecturer in Network Development
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James Moulding is the Lecturer in Network Development at Newspeak House, he is also a former resident and Fellow of the 2016-2017 cohort. James is a network thinker, political campaigner and simulation and serious game designer.
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James is the Network Development Lead on Involve’s
%a{:href => "https://democracynetwork.org.uk/"}>  UK Democracy Network
, prior to which he was the Director of the
%a{:href => "https://centrefordemocracy.org.uk/"}>  Centre for Democracy
, where he has been working to enhance the capacity of organisations and individuals across the UK democracy sector and increasing the strength and quality of connection between them.
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James has enjoyed an eclectic career working across a range of different roles associated with technology, community development and political campaigning. He began his career developing a community of technologists working with real-time sensor open data, before co-founding award-winning air quality non-profit AirPublic. He went on to work with political fundraising startup Crowdpac, before launching the 2017 viral mobile game Corbyn Run and co-founding the pioneering UK Labour Party affiliated game development studio Games for the Many.
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His other roles have included as co-founder of Campaign Lab, co-founder of Common Knowledge and as a National Coordinator of Extinction Rebellion.

%h3.profile-title Hannah O’Rourke
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Lecturer in Political Organising
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%a{:href => "https://twitter.com/Hannah_O_Rourke/"} @Hannah_O_Rourke
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Hannah is a bridge builder and network maker, passionate about making politics
more open, collaborative, and focused on the future. She has worked in
political organising, coalition management and campaigning for over 10 years.
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She is the co-founder of
%a{:href => "https://www.campaignlab.uk/"}>  Campaign Lab
, a community of technologists who
research, test and embed new tools and new practices in political campaigns.
She is co-author of the book
%a{:href => "http://www.reorganise.work/"}>  Reorganise: 15 Stories of Workers fighting back in a digital age
\. She is an advisor to the
%a{:href => "https://civicai.uk/"}>  Civic AI Observatory
, and also an
%a{:href => "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-decide-next-election-sam-lockwood"}>  emerging AI and campaigning network
in Brussels focused on the EU wide
elections. She was formerly the director of Labour Together and convened the
2019
%a{:href => "https://electionreview.labourtogether.uk/"}>  Labour Election Review
\.

%h3.profile-title Dr Six Silberman
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Lecturer in Socio-Technical Systems
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M. Six Silberman is the Lecturer in Sociotechnical Systems at Newspeak House.
Silberman also works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford,
studying the regulation of algorithmic management in the
%a{:href => "https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/imanage-rethinking-employment-law-for-a-world-of/imanage-rethinking-employment-law-world"}  ‘iManage’ Project
with colleagues Sangh Rakshita, Dr Halefom Abraha, and Principal Investigator
Jeremias Adams-Prassl.
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Between 2008 and 2020 Silberman was lead developer of Turkopticon, a web
application used by ‘clickworkers’ on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform.
Between 2015 and 2020 Silberman worked at IG Metall, the trade union in the
German manufacturing sector, on worker rights in digital labour platforms.
Between 2020 and 2022 Silberman worked as a software engineer at Organise, a
London-based social enterprise aiming to give people the tools, networks, and
confidence to win positive change at work. Silberman publishes peer-reviewed
research on data protection, worker rights, and environmental sustainability
and information technology.

%h3.profile-title Mustafa Warsi
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Lecturer in Mechanism Design
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Mustafa Warsi is the Lecturer in Mechanism Design at Newspeak House. Warsi is a global macro researcher/trader at Marshall Wace Asset Management LLC trading commodities, interest rates and global equities. Previously, Warsi worked in quantitative macro investment solutions at JP Morgan, before which he worked on a Power Trading desk at DE Shaw and Co.
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Warsi studied Pure Mathematics (BA + MMath) at the University of Cambridge with a focus on Algebra. Warsi also co-runs a charity in India to provide scholarships for girls from lower-caste communities.

%h3 Sam Ballard
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%a{:href => "https://twitter.com/baronblackmore"} @baronblackmore
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%a{:href => "https://sunlightafterdark.com"} sunlightafterdark.com
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Sam Ballard has two roles at Newspeak House. He is lecturer in game design, and also artist in residence. Sam has been designing digital experiences for over a decade, with an emphasis on user orientated design thinking methodologies to solve both creative challenges & system design. He is currently a designer at ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium.
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%h3 Declan Pattison
%h4 Declan Pattison
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%a{:href => "mailto:declan@newspeak.house"} declan@newspeak.house
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Declan is head of facilities at Newspeak House, responsible for the material components of the building and event production. He comes from a background in touring theatre, puppetry, and education. If something is leaking or on fire, let him know!

%h3 Mark Wainwright
%h4 Mark Wainwright
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