el-Effendi has a knack for understanding CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe’s innovative ideas and vision to empower users, and communicates this with the Bumble community through the voice, content, social media, and customer service.

He is the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab, exploring the meaning of technology worldwide as it spreads to the far reaches of our world.

He is also the author of the book “Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World” with NYU Press.

Srinivasan earned his Ph.D. in design studies at Harvard; his master’s degree in media arts and science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at Stanford. He has served fellowships in MIT’s Media Laboratory in Cambridge and the MIT Media Lab Asia. He has also been a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Design and Department of Visual and Environmental Design at Harvard.

Srinivasan is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes regular media appearances on NPR, Al Jazeera, “The Young Turks,” and Public Radio International. His writings have been widely published by Al Jazeera English, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post.

Jill’s latest album, Nostalgia Kills, is a reflection of Jill at her best, which The New York Times hailed as “grown-up music for an adolescent age.” With her signature warm wit and poet’s eye directed on herself more than ever before, Jill revisits moments from her life that made her the person she is today. It’s an especially poignant look back at childhood — “exorcising some junior high school demons,” we can all relate to.

Looking back is a new experience for Jill. Ever since she first caught mainstream attention with her 1995 song “I Kissed a Girl” — the first song about same-sex romance ever to crack the Billboard Top 20 (and no relation to the later Katy Perry tune) — she’s always pushed forward, exploring new sounds and subject matter with each passing album and refusing to be pigeonholed by her early hits (which also include the ‘90s alt-rock anthem “Supermodel,” featured in an iconic scene in the film Clueless.

Along the way, Jill has shared stages with the likes of Billy Bragg, Cyndi Lauper and Warren Zevon, written music for TV and theater, and been a pioneer in the art of crowdfunding, raising so much money for her 2009 album California Years that a then-unknown startup called Kickstarter came to her for advice. She’s also active in numerous social and political causes, performing at prisons as part of Wayne Kramer’s Jail Guitar Doors project, playing dates with Lady Parts Justice’s “Vagical Mystery Tour,” and curating Monster Protest Jams Vol. 1, featuring protest songs by Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Boots Riley, Amanda Palmer, Jackson Browne and many other great artists — including Jill’s own “When They Say We Want Our America Back, What the F#@k Do They Mean?”, which traces the history of anti-immigrant sentiment in America.

At Google, he works on Magenta: a project of the the Google Brain team focused on researching the generative applications of neural networks to enable new modes of creative exploration by musicians and artists.

His team supports mental health system strengthening, service delivery and psychosocial work across a catchment area of 1.3 million people, including care delivered by psychologists through 11 hospitals and clinics in the Lower Artibonite and Central Plateau regions, and care delivered by community health workers who live in the communities they serve.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Theology, and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He is also a certified acupuncturist and certified acudetox specialist.

He has been a principal investigator on a number of mental health capacity-building projects in Haiti, including through the support of Grand Challenges Canada from 2012-15: “Expansion of a new implementation model to address severe mental disorders in rural Haiti, to inform the development of a national decentralized mental health plan following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.”

He studied history at Dartmouth College, and medicine and public health at Harvard. He completed his Psychiatry training at MGH-McLean Hospitals, and training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where he learned about the delivery of rural mental health care in the US context.

In 2010 he took leadership of the Partners In Health mental health response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He concurrently led a new departmental quality program in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital that provides oversight of safety, quality, and outcomes initiatives in child and adolescent mental health care.

His academic work has centered on the integration and application of quality improvement and public health approaches in innovating clinical practice, teaching and research in the domains of psychiatry and global mental health, particularly in developing new intervention programs in mental health integrated within primary care systems in low resource settings.

Under his leadership at Partners In Health the organization has worked to integrate mental health services into the health systems supported by PIH, testing models of care in locations where there is a significant lack of specialists. This has included the creation of community-based mental health systems in Haiti and Rwanda, and supporting mental health program development in Mexico (Chiapas), Peru (Lima), Liberia, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Lesotho, Siberia, Navajo Nation in New Mexico, and the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

This work meets a critical local and global need for innovative, community-delivered, preventive and clinical mental health solutions, given the significant global burden of mental disorders and a universal shortage of specialists.

Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 19 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 24 languages.

Her newest book is New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins), published in October 2017. Esther is also an executive producer and the host of the Audible original series Where Should We Begin?

He has a long history of involvement in the anti-apartheid struggle, including leadership in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC).

He is the founder of the World for All Foundation, which aims to rethink the intellectual tools available to Muslims and faith communities, and create cooperative relations between faiths, cultures and communities at a global level.

Using the unique approach of shared experience, Beyond Conflict has helped catalyze the peace and reconciliation processes in several nations, including Northern Ireland, El Salvador, and South Africa.

Under Mr. Phillips’ leadership, Beyond Conflict launched a partnership with MIT to conduct cutting-edge research on the relationship between neuroscience and social conflict. Mr. Phillips has advised the United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, and the Council of Europe and has been a frequent speaker in national and international forums, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Congress.

He helped launch and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Club of Madrid, a forum for about 90 former democratic heads of state and government.

He is a member of Beyond Conflict’s International Advisory Council and the chairman of the Civil Society Initiative of South Africa.

Meyer also uses his experience to act as a consultant on peace processes and negotiations, such as in Northern Ireland, Rwanda and Kosovo.