Seeta Peña Gangadharan

Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan, a Data & Society advisor, is associate professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she also serves as deputy head of department (research) and program director for MSc media and communications (governance). She focuses on inclusion, exclusion, and marginalization, as well as questions around democracy, social justice, and technological governance. Peña Gangadharan co-leads two projects: Our Data Bodies, which examines the impact of data collection and data-driven technologies on members of marginalized communities in the United States; and Justice, Equity, and Technology, which explores the impacts of data-driven technologies and infrastructures on European civil society. In addition to community-based conversations, her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, New York Times, y Al Jazeera.