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Jennifer Nilsen, MPP

Research Fellow, The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

 Jennifer Nilsen is currently a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's News Lab, formerly the Technology and Social Change project, where she focuses on public health, medical, and scientific misinformation. The Technology and Social Change Project was active from 2019-2023. The Media Manipulation Casebook was a major publication of the TaSC project. She graduated from Harvard Kennedy School with her MPP in 2020. She previously worked for the Minneapolis Public Schools, the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Organizations Project, and with NGOs focusing on youth mentoring and election education.