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Matthias J. Becker is the AddressHate Research Scholar at NYU's Center for the Study of Antisemitism, where he leads the Decoding Hate project — directing its expert annotation team, developing its multi-ideology taxonomy architecture, and designing its empirical studies; Founding Research Advisor at AddressHate; and Editor-in-Chief of Digital Hate Review, where he sets the journal's editorial direction and scholarly agenda. A cognitive linguist and discourse analyst by training, with a PhD from TU Berlin, he examines how antisemitism, related hate ideologies, and antidemocratic resentment circulate across digital environments in their explicit, coded, and multimodal forms, combining qualitative discourse analysis with computational and LLM-enhanced methods.

In 2020, he launched Decoding Antisemitism, one of the largest European studies of antisemitism in digital communication. The project produced Decoding Antisemitism: A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2024) together with six Discourse Reports on hate speech in the UK, France, and Germany, and subsequent work has extended to the US. His earlier monograph, Antisemitism in Reader Comments, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021, and he is co-editor of two open-access volumes: Antisemitism in Online Communication: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Hate Speech in the Twenty-First Century (Open Book Publishers, 2024) and Imagery of Hate Online (Open Book Publishers, 2025). His peer-reviewed work includes a 2026 study in Frontiers in Communication on the linguistic and computational challenges of detecting antisemitism in the age of AI.

He has advised the US State Department, the British Parliament, the European Commission, and the German Federal Government on online hate and antisemitism, and his research has informed platform policy at Meta. Under his direction, Decoding Hate is currently producing a series of US-focused empirical case studies extending the approach across antisemitism, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, and misogyny, with findings designed to feed into knowledge transfer toward education, policy, law, and security.

Kathryn Wylde is one of the most prominent conveners in American civic life, bringing together business, government, and community leaders. She served as CEO of Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit organization of over 300 of the city's preeminent corporate, investment, and entrepreneurial firms working to advance the city as a global center of economic opportunity, upward mobility, and innovation.

Kathryn has had a remarkable impact on New York City. She developed a program transforming vacant lots into more than 40,000 affordable, owner-occupied homes across the five boroughs, helped launch a $130M fund that backed early NYC tech startups in the 1990s, and advised seven mayors on both sides of the political spectrum — including current mayor Zohran Mamdani as part of his transition team.

At AddressHate, Kathryn brings a powerful network across New York's civic and economic life. Her counsel and relationships strengthen AddressHate's ability to build the cross-sector coalitions that countering digital hate demands.

Michael Wildes is the Managing Partner at Wildes & Weinberg, P.C., a premier boutique immigration law firm. He has represented notable clients including Yoko Ono, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, and Lionel Richie. Michael's guiding principle is a simple one: treat all of his clients with the same respect and fight for their rights with tenacity regardless of their notoriety.

Michael is a former federal prosecutor with the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, has testified on Capitol Hill on anti-terrorism immigration legislation, and currently acts as Immigration Counsel to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Yeshiva University. He has also served his community as the current Mayor of Englewood, NJ, as a volunteer EMT, and as a former Auxiliary Police Officer.

At AddressHate, Michael brings experience defending the rights and dignity of people. He pairs his legal expertise with a scholarly background, having been an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law for the past 15 years and the author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door. His counsel strengthens AddressHate's ability to navigate the legal dimensions of countering hate.

Inbal Goldberger is the Co-Founder and CEO of Codeliance, an AI-powered compliance platform that helps online platforms navigate digital safety regulation such as the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act. She has over a decade of experience in Trust & Safety, specializing in digital regulation, online safety, and AI governance.

Before Codeliance, Inbal was VP Trust & Safety at ActiveFence, a trust, safety, and security company safeguarding communicative technologies. She was also part of Trust & Safety leadership at Google, where she managed a global function of escalation analysts across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM through critical global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US Elections.

She has also pioneered Ireland's first Trusted Flagger entity, co-founded the Trust & Safety Academy at NYU Bronfman Centre, and was part of the World Economic Forum's Global Coalition for Digital Safety. At AddressHate, Inbal brings deep experience and understanding of how solutions combating digital hate are applied in global technology platforms. She also supports the antisemitism flagging capabilities of AddressHate's classifier with her advisory council role at the Institute for Technology and Human Rights at the World Jewish Congress.

Stephanie Riven is the founder of The Riven Company, an organizational consultancy whose work spans capacity building, leadership and board development, fundraising strategy, and organizational assessment for nonprofits including Saint Louis Children's Hospital, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Wolf Trap, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

She was the founding executive director of the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) in St. Louis from 1987 to 2010, conceptualizing and building the organization from an $80,000 annual budget into the fifth-largest multidisciplinary community arts center in the country, with a $5 million budget, $16 million in assets, and 65,000 people served a year. She later joined the New York arts advisory firm David Bury & Associates as an affiliated consultant, and has served as a visiting practitioner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and on its Arts in Education Advisory Council.

She holds a BS in political science from Washington University in St. Louis and an MS from the Central Institute for the Deaf, and has received the YWCA Leader Award, the Visionary Arts Award, Washington University's Distinguished Alumna Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis.

At AddressHate, Stephanie helps stand up the governance and funding capacity necessary to sustain and accelerate its growth. Her expertise in institution-building, fundraising, and organizational leadership strengthens the foundation supporting AddressHate's research and technology.