Joan Mukogosi, a Data & Society affiliate, is a social scientist conducting research, shaping strategy, and providing commentary at the intersection of technology, health, and identity. A sociologist by training and an Afrofuturist by vocation, Joan’s work interrogates how Black lives are represented in health data, how health experts contemplate digital documentations of race, and the relationship between anti-Black racism, artificial intelligence, and electronic health records. Joan is a sociology PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and a fellow at the Black Beyond Data Lab, where she helps to convene the Community Health Informatics advisory group.
Joan Mukogosi
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Lawfare DailyOn Lawfare Daily, Maia Woluchem, Livia Garofalo, and Joan Mukogosi discuss their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state. Read on Lawfare DailySeptember 2025 -
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PointsThree Mile Island, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is coming back online to power the AI boom. Livia Garofalo, Joan Mukogosi, and Maia Woluchem explore what this means for the surrounding community. Read on PointsAugust 2025 -
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Data & SocietyThe essays in this anthology collectively reframe the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust reframes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. Read moreMay 2025 -
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PointsMembers of the Trustworthy Infrastructures team write about their research road trip through Pennsylvania, where they traced the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present. Read on PointsFebruary 2025 -
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Data & SocietyNovember 2024 -
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Yes! MagazineJoan Mukogosi writes about the urgency of protecting the health and data of Black pregnant people. Read on Yes! MagazineAugust 2024 -
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Data & SocietyJuly 2024 -
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Data & SocietyIn “Establishing Vigilant Care: Data Infrastructures and the Black Birthing Experience,” Data & Society researcher Joan Mukogosi explains why many prominent interventions to this crisis are neglecting other risks to Black people. Read moreJuly 2024 -
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Data & SocietyFebruary 2024 -
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Data & SocietyNovember 2023