STM People

Mithu Lucraft is Director of Communications & Marketing. She brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and marketing across scholarly publishing, most recently as a senior consultant at TBI Communications advising academic publishers, research societies, and partner organisations. Before that, she held senior marketing roles at Springer Nature, as well as communications...

Georgiana Svensmark-Baciu is Senior Manager, Public Affairs EU, based in Brussels. She brings a strong background in publishing, open science, and strategic communications, most recently at Elsevier where she led the global launch of AI products for researchers and coordinated marketing for ScienceDirect books and journals. In her role at STM, Georgiana supports EU policy...

Jessica Berry serves as the Clerk of the Senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee, manages the Subcommittee staff, and handles national security matters. She has served on the Appropriations Committee for more than 14 years in several roles, returning to CJS as Clerk in July 2022 after having served as the...

Kaia Motter is Head of Academic Affairs, North America at Springer Nature where she leads outreach, advocacy, and engagement activities in the US and Canada, building relationships and collaborating with funders, institutions, and other non-profit organizations in the region. Kaia has a background in publishing, having held editorial positions at Elsevier and Wiley. In recent...

Brian A. Hitson is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in the Office of Science.  OSTI fulfills agency-wide responsibilities to collect, preserve, and disseminate scientific and technical information emanating from DOE research and development (R&D) activities. Brian co-authored the DOE Public Access Plan, developing a strategy for implementing public access to...

Matt Giampoala serves as the Vice President for Publications for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) where he oversees its journals, books, and preprint programs. Matt has led efforts in expanding access and engagement through open science and reproducibility initiatives and is an advocate for promoting equity and inclusion in scholarly publishing.  Matt received his PhD in...

Will Burns is the Senior Legislative Assistant for Congressman Jay Obernolte (CA-23). He is the office lead handling the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies (robotics, quantum, etc.) policy portfolios. Will worked closely with Rep. Obernolte during his time as Chairman of the Bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Task Force, and helped work on Task Force hearings...

Dahlia Sokolov is the Democratic Policy Director of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. For a decade prior to that, she served as Staff Director for the Research & Technology Subcommittee, where she played a key role in developing and shepherding through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the National Artificial Intelligence...

Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.

Lauren Maggio, PhD, MS(LIS) is a Professor and the Director of Research in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Maggio holds a PhD in Health Professions Education (HPE) from the University Medical Center Utrecht. Dr. Maggio’s research aims to understand how health professionals and learners access, evaluate, and use information, including information generated by AI, in clinical and...