Scott Babwah Brennen
Dr. Scott Babwah Brennen is the Director of NYU's Center on Technology Policy and a Policy Research Affiliate at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics.
He previously was the head of online expression policy at UNC’s Center on Technology Policy, and was a senior policy associate at the Center on Science & Technology Policy at Duke University. Prior to Duke, Scott was a research fellow at the University of Oxford, where he led research for the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science, and Media, which examined the interplay between media change and misinformation about science, technology, and health.
Scott holds a doctorate in media and communication from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before pursing his doctorate, Scott received an M.A. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in chemistry from Grinnell College. He also served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a high school chemistry teacher in northern Mozambique.
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