Meg Young is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle, and a recently appointed a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative in New York City. Her work applies ethnographic and design methods to understand government use of information technologies on- the-ground, with a focus on how to make proprietary systems and technology policy more accountable to the public. Her work considers data access, privacy, proprietorship, and governance in “smart cities.” [Google Scholar] [Website]
Michael Katell is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington Information School where his research concerns the ethics of digital profiling and automated decision making. His work focuses on revealing social power and marginalization and their reproduction in contemporary technological artifacts and information practices. Michael is also affiliated with the Tech Policy Lab, a joint project of the UW Information School, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and School of Law. [Google Scholar]
Dr. Peaks Krafft is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. Their work examines the materialities of software and the digital world. They take particular inspiration from historical materialism and standpoint epistemology to pursue research and praxis that can further anti-racism and collective liberation. They combine this mission with a distinctive background in statistics, computer science, and information science to generate interventions in quantitative methods and in technology policy. [Google Scholar] [Website] [Twitter]