Tristan Harris
Tristan is Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests. Tristan was featured in the two-time Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma.
Frances Haugen
Frances Haugen is a leading advocate for accountability & transparency in social media, and the founder of Beyond The Screen. She is known as the Facebook Whistleblower, after disclosing tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents in 2021.
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is a Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her groundbreaking work explores how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines.
Vivek Murthy
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States from 2015 to 2017 and again from 2021 to 2025, under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Murthy increasingly expressed concern about the impact of social media on young users' mental health.
Cal Newport
Cal is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted world.
Laura Marquez-Garrett
Laura Marquez-Garrett is an Attorney at the Social Media Victims Law Center, which works to hold social media companies legally accountable for the harm they inflict on vulnerable users.
Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Tobias is a designer, writer, and technologist. He studies technology’s influence on moral emotions, media, and civil consensus. His first book, Outrage Machine was recently published by Hachette.
Kevin McCaskill
Kevin McCaskill is an educational leader, career and technical education advocate, workforce champion, and a member of the TPZ Board of Directors. He stepped into the role of Principal of Brockton High School in January 2023, during a time of unrest within the school; he has been working to strengthen the school culture and systems to ensure safe, meaningful experiences for all the students and staff.
Joni Siani
Joni Siani is a Media and Communications scholar, and Digital Socialization expert. Her acclaimed work on the shaping effects of digital socialization is presented in the award winning documentary Celling Your Soul, which was featured at the American Psychological Association conference in 2018.
Eric M. Baum
Eric M. Baum is a co-founding and co-managing partner of Eisenberg & Baum, LLP, where he is the head of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Baum has extensive experience litigating sexual harassment and discrimination claims. He has conducted hundreds of trials, mediations and arbitrations.
Matt Miles
Matt is a long time teacher in Northern Virginia. Together with Joe Clement, he is the coauthor of the book Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose how Technology Overuse is Making Our Kids Dumber.
Adam Alter
Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His 2017 New York Times bestselling book “Irresistible” explores contemporary behavioral addictions, from incessant smart phone use, to video game playing and compulsive online shopping.