We Are Civic Media

SANGITA SHRESTHOVA is the associate research professor of communication and a principal investigator for the Civic Paths group at the University of Southern California. She is the coauthor of Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook and a coeditor of Transformative Media Pedagogies and Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change.

DAN SINKER is the founder of the influential magazine Punk Planet and served as director of journalism nonprofit OpenNews. He cohosts the current events podcast Says Who and has contributed to Esquire, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

PRATIK NYAUPANE is a doctoral student at USC Annenberg, where he explores the intersection between society, technology, culture, and politics.

SOPHIE MADEJ is the program administrator at USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab. She has helped to implement and manage the Civic Media Fellowships from their inception.

COLIN MACLAY is a research professor of communication and the executive director of USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab. He works on innovation and change at the intersections of media, technology, and culture in support of human and planetary well-being.