Jared Holt
Senior Research Manager, Hate & Extremism, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
2021, 2022
Jared Holt is Senior Research Manager at ISD, working on the topics of hate and extremism. Jared has spent his career as a researcher and journalist covering the overlap between online spaces and political extremism in the United States. His background includes time working at The Atlantic Council’s DFRLab as a resident fellow, Right Wing Watch as an investigative reporter, and Media Matters for America as a researcher. In addition to those roles, his work has been published in national US publications including The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, HuffPost, and GEN Magazine. Jared is a widely recognized expert on political extremism in the United States, often providing commentary and analysis to national media outlets and changemakers. He is based in Chicago.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
