SCi LEADERSHIP
DAN POMEROY, PhD
Co-Founder and DirectorDr. Daniel Pomeroy is the Co-Founder and Director of the Scientific Citizenship Initiative (SCi) and previously served as SCi’s Founding Executive Director during its formative years at Harvard.
Dr. Pomeroy’s work sits at the forefront of the growing field of civic science. He holds an associate appointment at Harvard’s Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, serves on the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and recently contributed a commissioned paper to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Reimagining STEMM Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Career Development” Summit. Through workshops, reports, and field-building efforts, he has helped shape conversations about how scientists can contribute more effectively to public life.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Pomeroy developed and led the MIT Policy Lab at the Center for International Studies, where he helped pioneer new ways of connecting researchers with policymakers. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Brandeis University and later served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow for U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey. He also has extensive experience in grassroots political organizing, running volunteer LGBTQ rights campaigns, and professionally directing campaign offices.
Contact: dan@scientific-citizenship.org
PRIYANKA BUSHANA, PhD
Fellowship Engagement ManagerDr. Priyanka Bushana is the Fellowship Engagement Manager for the Scientific Citizenship Initiative, where she supports the development of the Massachusetts Science and Technology Policy Fellowship through advisory board engagement, program evaluation, and strategic communications. Her goal is to ensure that MASTPF is designed with the needs of trainees, the local scientific community, and the people of the Commonwealth in mind. Dr. Bushana earned her Ph.D. in sleep science, where she additionally developed platforms for scientists and trainees to engage in local science policy and community outreach, including co-founding the Washington Science Policy Network and the WSU Health Science Civic Engagement Council. Dr. Bushana is a 2025 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, who served on the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. There, she contributed to national initiatives on STEMM graduate education, postdoctoral career development, and researcher assessment reform. She has since worked in nonprofit evaluation and higher education labor organizing, and brings experience in grassroots and legislative advocacy, including helping lead a multi-campus unionization effort at Washington State University and co-authoring state legislation expanding collective bargaining rights for academic workers.
SCi TEAM
VINAY MANNAM
Postdoctoral Researcher
TOSIN ODUGBEMI
Graphic Design and Communications Manager
BRIAN PALMITER
Pedagogy Fellow
Josh McCubbin
Science Policy InternADVISORS
Natalie Kofler
Co-Founder
CARMEL SHACHAR, JD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Health Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School
MICHELLE FRANK, PhD
Whitehead Institute
MAGGIE GATES
Executive Director, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School
TAL SCULLY
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
RILEY TAITINGFONG, PhD
Natives Nations Institute, University of Arizona
CARA BIASUCCI
Ethics Unwrapped at UT Austin
ALISON SIMMONS, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
AHMAD (MO) KHALIL, PhD
Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
JOSEP-ANDREU PALACIOS-CABALLERO
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Rebecca Weintraub Brendal, MD, JD
Director, HMS Center for Bioethics
Danielle Allen, PhD
Director, Democratic Knowledge ProjectFORMER SCi TEAM MEMBERS
Angela DePace, PhD
Faculty Founder
JASON HEUSTIS, PhD
Assistant Dean for Student Development and Evaluation
Chelsea Marcho, PhD
Former SCi Program Coordinator
PARIROO RATTAN
Former Teaching Fellow
