Mar Hicks, a Data & Society affiliate, is an author, historian, and professor doing research on hidden histories of computing, as well as the history of labor and technology. An associate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science in Charlottesville, Mar teaches courses on the history of technology, computing and society, and the larger implications of powerful and widespread digital infrastructures. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Mar’s multiple award-winning book, Programmed Inequality, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. They are also co-editor of the book Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press, 2021), a volume of essays about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures, and an associate editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.