Maia Woluchem is the director of Data & Society’s Trustworthy Infrastructures program. She is an urban planner, educator, and technologist who has worked across government, philanthropy, civil society, and in academia to preserve human rights in the digital realm. Maia is especially focused on building collective understanding around racial capitalism, democracy, and surveillance in sociotechnical systems, in both domestic and global contexts.

Prior to joining Data & Society, Maia created programs, research, and funding strategy as a tech fellow at the Ford Foundation, built research at the Surveillance Resistance Lab, and did transnational advocacy work with the Coalition for Independent Tech Research. She is also an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she teaches about segregation’s legacy on public policy. She earned a master’s degree from MIT and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh.