I’m Catherine D’Ignazio, Director of the Data + Feminism Lab and an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
I’m interested in creative ways to democratize data science, AI, and technology for social justice. I’m the co-author of the 2020 book Data Feminism together with Lauren F. Klein. My latest book, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press 2024), describes transnational, Latin American and Indigenous data activism about fatal gender-related violence. I co-lead the research and participatory design project Data Against Feminicide with Isadora Cruxên, Silvana Fumega, and Helena Suárez Val. I make public art & design projects, write software code & research papers, teach urban planning and computer science students, run data storytelling workshops (often with Rahul Bhargava) and feminist hackathons. I’m a compulsive collaborator, joiner and organizer and affiliated with the below organizations. I am also on the board of directors of Indigenous Women Rising, an amazing group of Native women, queer and non-binary innovators who are committed to honoring Native & Indigenous People’s inherent right to equitable and culturally safe health options through accessible health education, resources and advocacy. More about me…
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Free online book club with Catherine + Data Pop Alliance * English * Spanish * Portuguese | May – August 2024 |
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | Mon May 20, 2024, 12:30pm |
The AI Paradigm: Between Personhood and Power Symposium Keynote, University of California Irvine | May 23-24, 2024 |
How does data cooperate with feminist epistemology? 데이터는 어떻게 페미니스트 인식론과 만나는가?, Hosted by Prof. Hyomin Kim (UNIST) and Listen to the City, WISET 후원, Seoul, South Korea | May 27, 2024 20:30 KST |
International Congress on Women, Technology and Power Keynote, University of Deusto, San Sebastián, Spain | June 18-19, 2024 |
Activismo de Datos para Cambiar el Mundo, Deusto Forum, San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián, Spain | June 20, 2024 |
A Conversation on Writing, Design and Publishing, Design Research Society Conference, Cambridge, MA | Thursday, June 27, 2024, 12-1PM ET |
Digital Methods Summer School Keynote, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Monday, Jul 1, 2024 |
Data + Feminism = Equality Roundtable, University of Houston, Houston, TX (Online event) | Monday, August 26, 2024 |
Living Cities Forum, Melbourne, Australia, The Edge, Fed Square; and Living Cities Forum, Sydney, Australia, State Library NSW | September 18 and/or 20th, 2024 |
Counting Feminicide: MIT Book Launch Party with Harini Suresh and Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, Cambridge, MA | Sept 19, 2024, 4:30-6PM |
IEEE Visualization Conference, Capstone speaker, St Pete, FL | Friday, Oct 18, 2024 |
Harvard Business School. “AI in Global Society” seminar series at the Harvard Digital Observatory, Keynote speaker. | Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024, 12PM-1:30PM |
XX Fórum contra las violencias de género, Barcelona, Spain | Nov 7-9, 2024 |
Center for Science, Society and Public Policy, California Institute of Technology. | Monday, Nov 18, 2024 |
MIT Horizon live event (Online event). | Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 12PM-1PM. |
Get in touch if you are interested in inviting me to speak. If you are a group that monitors feminicide/femicide, MMIW/P, police killings, fatal violence against LGBTQ+ people or other human rights violations, I’m happy to speak with your group and share what I’ve learned from this work with no speaking fee required. |
Data literacy, feminist tech, media innovation and civic art & design.
Boston Coastline: Future Past
A walking data visualization of the Boston water line as projected for the year 2100 based on climate change.
Updates, workshops, and recent publications