Organizations Filed Purposes:
HARMONY LABS AIMS TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE RESEARCH AND UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MEDIA INFLUENCE WORKS WITHIN SOCIETY AND PARTNERS WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING RESEARCH, INDUSTRY AND MEDIA PRACTICIONERS TO ADDRESS KNOWLEDGE GAPS AND TO EXPERIMENT WITH AND DEVELOP SOLUTIONS THAT HAVE POSITIVE SOCIAL OUTCOMES.
HARMONY LABS CONDUCTED AND SUPPORTED RESEARCH AND AWARENESS PROJECTS FOCUSED ON THE INFLUENCE AND IMPACT OF MEDIA ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES. THIS INCLUDED PROJECTS TO DEVELOP NEW VIRTUAL REALITY APPROACHES TO MORE EFFECTIVELY EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE ON BULLYING, CREATING IMPACT DESIGN TOOLKITS FOR MEDIA MAKERS WORKING ON ONLINE PRIVACY ISSUES, AND WORKING WITH FILMMAKERS TO UNDERSTAND THE CURRENT CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS HAPPENING AROUND THE CLIMATE ISSUE. HARMONY LABS INITIATED A NEW PROJECT AIMED AT DEVELOPING THE RESOURCES AND TOOLS NECESSARY TO ENABLE A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO GENERATING BASIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ABOUT MEDIA INFLUENCE AND TO APPLY THAT KNOWLEDGE TO MEDIA SOLUTIONS THAT BENEFIT SOCIETY.THIS WORK INCLUDED BUILDING DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, DATA SCIENCE RESOURCES AND A LIBRARY OF ANALYTIC TOOLS AND MODELS THAT COULD BE SHARED WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, INCLUDING RESEARCHERS, INDUSTRY AND MEDIA PRACTITIONERS. IT ALSO INCLUDED THE BUILDING OF A BASIC FRAMEWORK FOR INDUSTRY PARTNERS TO ENGAGE AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES WITH RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS TO ADDRESS SOCIAL ISSUES THAT ARISE IN THE MEDIA CONTEXT, AND SUPPORTING MEDIA TECH ENTREPRENEURS WHO ARE DEVELOPING IMPORTANT AND SOCIALLY USEFUL DATA, KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESSES, VIA AN ACCELERATOR PROGRAM. SOME EXAMPLE WORK IN THIS AREA INCLUDED A FIRST-OF-ITS KIND CROSS-PLATFORM INFORMATION MAP OF THE NEWS ECOSYSTEM, A NEW SEARCH AND DISCOVERY TOOL FOR JOURNALISTS TO CONTEXTUALIZE AND TRACK MEMES, AND A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR RAPID-PROTOTYPING WITHIN THE CREATIVE PROCESS.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Brian Waniewski | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $264,271 |
| Michael Slaby | COMMUNITY DIRECTOR | 40 | $242,665 |
| Elizabeth Stewart | MANAGING DIRECTOR - ACCELERATOR | 40 | $192,737 |
| H P Johnson | MARCOMM DIRECTOR | 40 | $164,432 |
| Michael Rigdon | ENGINEERING DIRECTOR | 40 | $130,857 |
| Amy Sewell | OPERATIONS DIRECTOR | 40 | $125,752 |
| Adam Wolfensohn | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Jonah Peretti | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Charles Melcher | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Matthew Barzun | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Emma Canarick | SECRETARY | 1 | $0 |
| Jed Alpert | TREASURER | 1 | $0 |
| John S Johnson | CHAIRMAN | 1 | $0 |
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