My name is Ian Beacock – & I put ideas to work for the public good. Criss-crossing disciplines, I focus on the past, present, & future of democracy.
Strategy Lead at Gemic, focusing on technology & society. Writer & critic: frequent contributor to The New Republic; bylines at The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Aeon, &c.
Now:
Historian of democracy, trained at Stanford (PhD 2019). Coauthor of major international policy report on Covid communications & democratic public health (2020).
Before:
Interviewed on WNYC/NPR’s On the Media about misinfo (6/7/2024). Led fieldwork in Austin, LA, Manila, São Paulo, Tokyo, CDMX. Research support for the 2023 CBC Massey Lectures on insecurity. Coauthored an awardwinning paper with Google/Jigsaw, on Gen Zers & online misinformation.
