Martha Poon is a social scientist interested in how data-intensive systems are changing the public’s relationship to finance. She researches and writes about the impact of credit scoring technology on consumer access to credit. At the Data & Society Research Institute, she will be developing strategies for investigating, explaining, and communicating the role of information systems in financial innovation. She earned a doctoral degree from the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego in 2012.
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Data & SocietyThis primer maps the peer-to-peer/marketplace lending ecosystem in order to ground the "Data & Fairness" initiative's investigations into its benefits and challenges and potential for fairness and discrimination. Read moreJuly 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the persistent obstacles that communities of color face within our consumer finance system, and investigates the role of rapidly changing technologies therein. Read moreOctober 2014