Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, information, and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Initiative on Digital Public Infrastructure. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the use of new media technologies by activists, and alternative business and governance models for the internet. He is the author of Mistrust: How Losing Trust in Institutions Provides Tools to Transform Them (W.W. Norton & Company, 2021) and Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection (W.W. Norton & Company, 2013). With Rebecca MacKinnon, Zuckerman co-founded the international blogging community Global Voices. Previously, Zuckerman directed the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. In 2000, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer organization that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Zuckerman was the visiting research scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute for the 2020-2021 academic year. He and his family live in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts.