Is a Public Scholarship Fellow for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), an Advancing Public Scholarship Fellow at Henry Luce Foundation, an Advisor of AI and Emerging Technologies with the Vatican on the Pontifical Council on Culture of the Roman Catholic Church. Lehto holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley College, a M.T.S. in Religion and Social Sciences from Harvard University, and a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley.