Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information, as well as director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure. He is the author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021). In 2005, Zuckerman co-founded Global Voices, which showcases news and opinions from citizen media in more than 150 nations and 30 languages.