Meg Young applies participatory and action methods to research on technology governance, with a focus on how to make surveillance and AI more accountable to the public. As a senior researcher and project director of the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab (AIMLab), Meg studies how to support advocacy groups and the public to drive algorithmic accountability and assessment in practice. She has collaborated with activists, advocacy groups, and public agencies on capacity-building for data governance, technology oversight, and public engagement. She also co-founded the Critical Platform Studies Group, a nonprofit that partners with civil rights groups to pursue algorithmic accountability through adversarial design.

Much of Meg’s work focuses on promoting digital rights in municipal government; her dissertation examined how government use of proprietary systems impacts public access, accountability, and oversight. Before joining Data & Society, Meg was a postdoctoral researcher at the Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative, where she remains an affiliate, and a fellow in the New York City Office of Technology Innovation.

Meg holds a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.