Revati Prasad | Vice President of Programs
Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Dr. Revati Prasad is the Vice President of Programs at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Working with the Executive Director and Executive Editor, Dr. Prasad defines and implements Benton’s strategic vision and oversees the day-to-day management of Benton's programmatic work. Through the Institute’s research and Marjorie & Charles Benton Opportunity Fund fellowship program, she leads Benton’s contributions to evidence-based policy solutions to advance universal equitable broadband access, adoption, and application. Dr. Prasad holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her doctoral work examined efforts to “connect the unconnected” in rural India. As a 2022 American Council for Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellow at the Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR), Dr. Prasad concentrated on tribal broadband research and technical assistance. Dr. Prasad's work has been published in a number of leading academic journals and she has received awards from the International Communication Association.