Nusheen Ameenuddin
TAM Advisory Board
Nusheen Ameenuddin is a pediatrician at the Mayo Clinic and Chair of the Council on
Communications and Media for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is also an assistant
professor at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center, and completed the fellowship in minority
health policy at Harvard Medical School. Nusheen is passionate about child advocacy,
parent education, and promoting public health. She is also a self-proclaimed
"tweetiatrician," and uses social media to raise awareness on the sociopolitical context of
healthcare.
Amanda Lenhart
TAM Advisory Board
Amanda Lenhart studies how technology affects human lives, with a special focus on
families and children. A quantitative and qualitative researcher, Amanda is the Health +
Data Research Lead at the Data & Society Research Institute. Over decades, she has
examined how adolescents and their families use and think about technology, how young
adults consume news, how harassment has thrived in online spaces, and how automation
will impact workers.
David Ryan Polgar
TAM Advisory Board
David Ryan Polgar is a leading voice in the areas of tech ethics, digital citizenship, and
what it means to be human in the digital age. David is a global speaker, a regular media
commentator for national & international press, and a frequent advisor & consultant on
building a better tech future. He is the co-host/co-creator of Funny as Tech, a NYCbased
podcast & occasional live show that deals with our messy relationship with
technology, and is the founder of All Tech Is Human, an accelerator for tech
consideration & hub for the Responsible Tech movement.
Amanda Lipp
TAM Advisory Board
Amanda Lipp is a social entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker, consultant, and speaker.
Amanda has produced over 60 short documentaries about mental health and social impact -
covering topics such as youth psychosis, schizophrenia, art therapy, cyberbullying prevention,
and housing relief from wildfires. A passionate advocate, she has given over 150 speeches
around the U.S. since age 18 sharing her journey navigating the mental health system during
college to working in the field. Beyond ground-level storytelling, Amanda is committed to
systemic change. She currently serves as a member of the Interdepartmental Serious Mental
Illness Committee (ISMICC) created by Congress to advise on federal mental health policy.