About Monika Hanley
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Monika Hanley
Fellow scholar and educator
In addition to being an international journalist and Fulbright Scholar (Latvia ’19; Albania ’24), Monika
has been designing and delivering media-literacy programs worldwide for teachers, librarians, and policy
makers, recently co-authoring a State-Department-funded MOOC that has been translated into ten
languages and reached 40,000 learners worldwide.
She also developed the Baltic Very Verified course with IREX. Her academic publications appear in
many journals and book chapters, and is an educator with the University of Washington’s Media Literacy
Institute. Monika holds a BA in both linguistics and political science, an MA in International Relations,
and an LLM in Human Rights Law, credentials she now channels into AI equity research, media literacy
solutions, data-driven approaches for tracking influence campaigns and improving algorithmic
transparency in classrooms and communities.
Email: monika.hanley@mediaeducationlab.com
ORCiD: 0009-0009-6378-2154
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QM40Pa0AAAAJ&hl=en
Website: https://monika-hanley.owlstown.net/