New Master’s Program Welcomes Lee, Marda
Tech policy experts Nicol Turner Lee and Nik Marda will be teaching classes for the School of Education and Social Policy’s newest offering, the Master’s in Technology, People, and Policy program.
Lee a researcher and senior fellow at the Brooking Institution who writes about the digital divide. She is co-editor in chief of Brookings’ TechTank and the author of Digitally Invisible: How the internet is creating the new underclass.
She’ll be teaching the class Foundations of Technology Policy: Global Perspectives in the fall of 2025. “My work speaks to people, communities and institutions that are often under-represented in technology conversations,” she wrote on her website. "Together we can create and change public policies to ensure that no person or community gets left behind.”
Marda, who will teach the course Navigating AI and Data Governance: Tools and Techniques for Tech Policy Professionals in the winter of 2026, is technical lead for AI governance at Mozilla, where he tries to make it easier for developers to make AI more open, public, and trustworthy.
A steering committee member with the Tech Talent Project, he’s been listed among 100 government AI leaders around the world. Marda is the former chief of staff for the technology division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and served as a policy advisor in the National AI Initiative Office. “I’m trying to make tech better for everyone,” he says.