2025 Fellows

Agnee Ghosh is a 2025-26 Tarbell Fellow at Bloomberg News in San Francisco, where she reports on how artificial intelligence is reshaping business, labor and local communities, and what evolving regulations mean for consumers.

Effie Webb is an AI reporter based in London. Prior to Tarbell, she was a Tech Fellow at Business Insider, where she reported on the AI training and data labeling industry.

Jakub Kraus is a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare. He previously worked at the Center for AI Policy, where he wrote the AI Policy Weekly newsletter and hosted a podcast on AI's impacts and governance.

Kai Williams is an AI reporter based in Washington DC. Prior to Understanding AI, Kai worked as an AI safety researcher through the MATS program. Kai graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in mathematics and music.

Nikita reports on AI in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Previously, he studied physics (and some philosophy) at the University of Oxford, developed AI systems for museums at Axiell and dangerous capability evaluations of frontier AI models at LASR Labs.

Vincent Chow is a reporter and translator covering AI for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Prior to Tarbell, he worked as a freelance writer in Shanghai where he was recognized by the Society of Publishers in Asia for his culture reporting.

Aisha Kehoe Down is an investigative journalist based in London, covering artificial intelligence for The Guardian. Prior to Tarbell, she spent six years at OCCRP reporting on financial crime in the Middle East and Sahel.

Elissa Welle is a New York-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI, including the technology itself and the companies and policies that make and shape it.

Jared Perlo is a New York-based AI reporter for NBC. Before participating in the Tarbell Fellowship, Jared worked on AI policy. He was a Winter Fellow with the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) and worked for the French Center for AI Safety (CeSIA)

Michelle is an AI reporter for MIT Technology Review based in San Francisco. Previously, she was a freelance journalist in Seoul, where she covered labor and tech for Rest of World and South Korean politics for Foreign Policy.

Nilesh Christopher is a technology reporter, focusing on how artificial intelligence empowers, harms and reshapes communities. Christopher was formerly the South Asia correspondent for Rest of World.

Celina Zhao is a DC-based reporter covering AI and science. She holds bachelors and masters in science journalism from MIT, and her writing has previously appeared in Science, Science News, and NOVA.

Ella is an AI reporter based in Berkeley, CA. She recently finished her BA in CS and philosophy at Columbia. In her free time, she enjoys meditating, swing dancing, and arguing about AI consciousness.

Jonathan is an AI reporter based in Washington DC. Previously, Jonathan lived in London, and worked on the intersection of emerging technology and international relations, with a particular focus on US-China and UK-China relations.

Nick Corvino is a reporter for ChinaTalk, covering China's artificial intelligence ecosystem and approaches to global AI governance. He believes AI could be the defining issue of our time, and that good reporting can help us steer the ship (or nudge it) in the right direction.

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI. His work explores the social and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, applications in health and science and the evolving policy landscape, as well as safety threats and frontier labs.