People

Alphoncina Kagaigai is a health economist and lecturer. At GML she studies the effects of media messages about HIV.

Dylan W. Groves works on journalism, government accountability, and public health, primarily through field experiments in Tanzania.

Works with GML on the rise of religious radio.

Works with GML on reducing intimate partner violence in Rwanda.

Works on media impacts in rural Tanzania.

Kate SantaMaria studies media messages and intimate partner violence, court shopping, and how judicial and religious messages shape attitudes in Tanzania.

Marco Kitundu is a researcher at the Economic and Social Research Foundation. He works on media capture and the supply of watchdog journalism in Tanzania.

Nneka Osadolor completed her PhD at the University of Ibadan. At GML she works on mass media messages and family planning in Nigeria.

Noela Ringo led GML projects at the Economic and Social Research Foundation for two years before starting her PhD. She works on media and public health programs.

Works on media impacts in higher education.

Salma Emmanuel is a former Robert S. McNamara Fellow at the World Bank. At GML she works on the persuasive power of courts, climate change news, and solar adoption.

Savannah Nivin works on disability rights and on the long-term effects of an HIV radio drama.

Zakayo Zakaria is a research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Foundation, a CEGA fellow, and a PhD student in economics at the University of Dar es Salaam. He leads GML work on citizen responses to watchdog reporting and the Afya Yako public health project.

A longtime journalist and editor who studies media and social change.

Reach for Action is a Tanzanian NGO that uses media for community development.

A science journalist working to raise the profile of Tanzanian scientific research.

Alana Kipnis worked on law and justice, including social media activism for Indigenous land rights.

Alexander Brown worked on climate change news. His honors thesis studied international responses to starvation as a weapon of war.

Athena Wagner managed the Global Media Lab and led research on solar power adoption and coastal cleanup in Tanzania.

As an EXCEL Scholar, Ben Risley worked on citizen responses to watchdog reporting and blame attribution.

Brenda Nyambo holds a master’s in economics and a BA in statistics from the University of Dar es Salaam. At GML she worked on court shopping in Tanzania.

Worked on media impacts in higher education.

Studied the effects of media on elections.

Francis Nyonzo is a Tanzanian economist and author. He was a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Michigan State University in 2024–2025.

Isabella Tang worked on using local religious leaders to counter human trafficking in rural Tanzania. Her honors thesis studied stigma against trafficking survivors.

Martin Zuakulu was pursuing a master’s degree in public health.

Worked on media ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Worked on media ownership and journalist culture.