A Data & Society affiliate, Beth Duckles is a co-founder and research director of Organizational Mycology, which supports evidence-based strategy development in communities. She is currently conducting qualitative research to create a training program and community of practice for leaders of open source scientific software projects. She is also a senior researcher at the  AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance and a project co-lead on the Red Teaming in the Public Interest Project. 

Beth takes a mixed-method social science approach to complex cross-disciplinary problems spanning academic, government, nonprofit, and private sectors. She was an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Department of Energy, has conducted research on standard-setting in the green building industry, and has taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. Beth served as a wrangler for Mozilla Festival’s 2022 Sustainability and Climate Change Space, and as the founder and co-director of Open Post Academics (OPA), an online peer-support community for people with PhDs. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Arizona.