Ryan Gerety, a Data & Society affiliate, is the director of the Athena Coalition — a coalition of 50+ worker, antitrust, racial justice, tech advocacy, economic justice, and environmental justice organizations working together to break Amazon’s dangerous stranglehold over our democracy, economy, and planet. 

For the last 18 years, Ryan has focused on the economic and political implications of new technology. She has worked with organizers and grassroots organizations to understand and respond to the ways tech and tech corporations are compounding inequality, including through worker surveillance, data-driven redlining, the integration of surveillance technology into public infrastructure, police surveillance, and community-governed broadband. She was previously at the Ford Foundation and the Open Technology Institute at New America.

Ryan holds a BS in computer science and an MA in political science from the University of New Mexico, where she grew up.