Jason Steinhauer is passionate about creating an educated, informed and historically and media literate citizenry. He served as Founding Director of the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest; is currently a Global Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; an adjunct professor at the Maxwell School for Citizenship & Public Affairs; a contributor to TIME, CNN and DEVEX; a past editorial board member of The Washington Post "Made By History" section; and a Presidential Counselor of the National WWII Museum. He worked for seven years at the U.S. Library of Congress. Jason's bestselling book, History, Disrupted: How Social Media & the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past, examines how social media shapes what we know about the past. The book has been reviewed and read around the world, and Jason has been invited to speak at more than 140 events including the U.S. Army, National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Department of State, European Parliament, European Commission, Harvard Club of Washington, D.C., Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Microsoft, Sundance Film Festival, SxSW, and dozens of universities. He has appeared on NPR four times and the book release was filmed and aired by C-SPAN. In 2020, he founded the History Club on Clubhouse, which he hosts regularly. The club has more than 100,000 members and averages 2,500 participants per week. His History Club Substack and newsletter are read by policymakers, diplomats, scholars, and citizens worldwide. In 2014, he coined the term "History Communicators" and has worked with colleagues worldwide to found the new field of History Communication. He is the founder and CEO of the History Communication Institute, which comprises 130 scholars on 6 continents. Jason has traveled overseas with the U.S. Department of State three times as part of diplomatic exchanges between the United States and the European Union, meeting with government officials, scholars and students to discuss the effects of the Web and social media on public understandings of news, history and information. He has spoken at events across the United States and Europe and appears frequently in the media. A native New Yorker, he is a long-suffering New York Jets fan.