Staff

At the urging of his children from their awareness of the growth of hate online, in September 2024, Joshua Laterman and his family foundation, the Laterman Family Foundation created the “Laterman Family Foundation AddressHate Initiative” with the philanthropic grant of $1 million dollars to fight antisemitism and hate on social media. The goal of AddressHate is to maximize technology to identify the sources of hate, root out the technological vehicles for their advancement and promulgation, and find technological solutions to thwart and end hate.

Mr. Laterman is a Director of the Laterman Family Foundation, which was founded by his parents, Frances Iger Laterman and the late Bernard Laterman to make multigenerational commitments to a wide array of religious, health, public education, and social justice, literary, and scientific charities and institutions. A substantial portion of the Laterman Family Foundation's annual gift-giving are for the welfare of the Jewish people, and the support of medical, educational, cultural, and philanthropic organizations affiliated with Jewish institutions.

Mr. Laterman is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Baruch College Fund (BCF), a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote the educational welfare of the students at Baruch College. He follows in his late father's footsteps at BCF where he continues his family's commitment to public education, Baruch College, its diverse student body, and strengthening Black and Jewish relations.

Emily works at the intersection of culture, communication, and technology. At AddressHate, she leads partnerships and strategic initiatives that bridge academia, industry, and civil society to build collaborative systems for understanding and countering digital hate.

With over a decade of experience in consumer branding, community strategy, and storytelling, Emily brings a creative lens to coalition-building and public engagement. She advises leading fashion and media brands on audience and comms strategy and has built and taught courses on innovation and consumer behavior at Parsons School of Design.

Her work focuses on designing initiatives that translate complex research into accessible narratives — connecting ideas, institutions, and audiences around a shared goal of safer, more empathetic digital spaces.

Christina brings over a decade of operational and start-up leadership experience to AddressHate, where she leads organizational strategy and operations across programs and cross-functional initiatives. With a background leading operations, go-to-market strategy, and complex partnerships at both high-growth start-ups and established consumer technology companies, Christina ensures AddressHate operates with rigor, alignment, and a clear focus on impact as the organization advances research and solutions to reduce digital hate.

John Murry is a seasoned financial executive with over 30 years of experience managing companies and their finances. He is the Chief Financial Officer for a variety of for-profit and nonprofit entities. He also serves on several companies' Boards of Directors. John has experience with a diverse set of businesses including software, technology, marketing, healthcare, service and manufacturing. Broad financial experience with public and private companies including several private equity firms that successfully rehabbed struggling businesses.

John comes to our organization as our Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer, helping build and guide this young business to make a difference in this world.

John has degrees from Lakeland University and Marquette University. He has taught Accounting and Business Analysis at the college level. John is a graduate of General Electric's Financial Management Program with honors as the top graduate worldwide.

Dylan is a creative professional specializing in visuals and messaging that drive connection and impact. At AddressHate, he supports the mission by designing print and digital assets, creating social media content, and helping translate our story to share. His past work has focused on campaigns that inspire engagement and action, particularly in youth democracy and voting rights initiatives, where he has helped shape content and campaigns that reach communities across the country.

His experience spans nonprofits, startups, and purpose-driven organizations, building campaigns that uplift communities, make complex ideas accessible, and encourage civic participation. Dylan brings both strategy and creativity to every project, combining thoughtful design with a deep understanding of audience engagement. His work reflects a belief that well-crafted visuals and messaging can strengthen movements, spark meaningful change, and empower people to take action.

Keyu Glanz is a Research Scientist at AddressHate and Managing Editor of Digital Hate Review. At AddressHate, he designs and supports interdisciplinary research projects and contributes to grant development — identifying funding opportunities, shaping research proposals, and advancing the organization's long-term research strategy. At DHR, he oversees the journal's editorial operations and peer review process, working closely with contributors, reviewers, and the editorial board to ensure the publication of high-quality scholarship and practitioner perspectives on digital hate and online extremism.

Trained as a communication scholar, he studies the intersection of political communication and international relations, with particular emphasis on global information campaigns conducted by the United States and competing states, including China, Russia, and Iran. His work combines computational text analysis — sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and other machine-learning approaches — with statistical modeling and qualitative methods. His scholarship has appeared in International Communication Gazette, International Journal of Communication, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Global Media and China, and Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. His current book project draws on computational methods and critical cultural approaches to analyze contested definitions of human rights between the United States and China across more than two decades of government reports and state-sponsored social media accounts.

Katerina Papatheodorou is a Researcher at AddressHate and Editorial and Outreach Coordinator at Digital Hate Review, where she builds partnerships and networks across the academic, security, and civil society sectors and works to establish the journal's visibility on a global scale, alongside supporting the editorial and peer review process.

A research psychologist, she holds a PhD from Georgia State University. Her work focuses on terrorism, mass violence, and the digital manifestations of misogyny, combining forensic psychology with computational and qualitative methods at the intersection of psychology, security research, and policy. She has spent years studying how extremist actors radicalize and organize across regions and cultural contexts, and led a major study of the incel movement and online misogyny that formed the core of her doctoral research.

Her interests extend to how state actors construct and circulate narratives through global media, and to how violence comes to be classified and understood as extremism in the first place. Her scholarship has appeared in Psychology, Crime & Law, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Journal for Deradicalization, and Electronic News, among others.

Dan Headrick is a linguist whose work spans second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). He holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University (2017), where he used critical discourse analysis to examine political rhetoric, including how politicians use closed-class words to construct and position a transgressive “other.” His research explores the linguistic features of populist discourse and their relationship to hate speech. He has also worked in NLU, focusing on intent classification and the challenges that elliptical, context-dependent communication presents for automated language understanding.

At AddressHate, he works on the discourse-analytic foundations of hate speech classification, contributing to the development of annotation categories by analyzing the contextual and pragmatic dimensions of language, as well as the implicit social and structural assumptions that underpin coded and indirect forms of hateful communication.

Ethan Lee is a Researcher at AddressHate. He holds an MSc in Medical Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research examines the intersections of health policy and public discourse, with a particular interest in how marginalized communities are represented within public health research. His previous work has explored anti-trans legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States, analyzing contemporary debates around bodily autonomy and self-determination.

At AddressHate, he works on research into different hate ideologies and their underlying discursive construction in online environments using qualitative analysis. He has also contributed to the development of training to identify hate speech and case studies on the use of specific rhetorical devices to exonerate hate speech and inculpate marginalized groups.

Marco Mortato is a linguist whose work addresses multilingualism, psycholinguistics, and linguistic behavior in digital contexts. He holds an MA in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies from the University of Siena (2026), where he began investigating hate speech through computational and discourse-analytic methods — work that traces both the complexity of hateful communication and the challenges it poses for automated detection. His earlier research on regional sociolinguistic variation and cross-linguistic analysis sharpened his attention to the fine-grained cues through which language carries social meaning.

At AddressHate, his research centers on the annotation and analysis of online hate speech, with particular attention to the linguistic, contextual, and pragmatic cues that distinguish coded hateful content from explicit forms of hateful communication.