Adept at communicating complex initiatives and ideas, Sona Rai will lead D&S’s communications work in a moment when research on technology’s societal impacts urgently needs to reach new audiences. Read more

Data & Society is pleased to welcome two incoming fellows to our 2022–23 Faculty Fellowship Program: Lindsey D. Cameron and Christina N. Harrington. Their work will align with the theme of this year's fellowship program: Race, Tech, and the State. Read more

Data & Society welcomes civil liberties attorney Cindy Cohn to its board of directors. Read more

Data & Society is thrilled to announce that our Executive Director, Janet Haven, has been appointed to the National AI Advisory Committee by the US Secretary of Commerce. Read more

Data & Society is delighted to welcome Ellen Pao and Raina Kumra to our Board of Directors.  Ellen Pao is a tech investor and advocate, the former CEO of reddit, and a cofounder of the award-winning diversity and inclusi... Read more

Data & Society and the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law have collaborated to publish two papers with recommendations around human rights and algorithmic impact assessments.  In the paper “Recommendations for Assess... Read more

A two-day workshop inviting Authors to workshop their academic papers, chapters, data mappings, or other outputs, & Participants to prepare interdisciplinary feedback on the selected works-in-progress. Read more

Data & Society is pleased to share that our current Postdoctoral Scholar Ranjit Singh, along with his co-author Steven Jackson (Cornell University), will be awarded a CSCW 2021 Best Paper Award for “Seeing Like an Infrastructure: Low-resolution Citizens and the Aadhaar Identification Project". Read more

A two-day online storytelling workshop to reflect on research as a craft and as intellectual practice, and an opportunity for collaborative listening in the emerging field of AI in the Global South. Read more

Data & Society is thrilled to announce today that Ania Calderon has joined us as our new Managing Director. Ania has worked at the crux of technology and democracy for over a decade as a leading open government advocate.... Read more