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danah boyd Joins Georgetown as Visiting Distinguished Professor

27 Oct, 2021

danah boyd Joins Georgetown as Visiting Distinguished Professor

BCNM alum danah boyd has joined Georgetown University for the year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. danah is Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of Data & Society. danah's research focuses on how contemporary social inequities relate to technology and society. From Georgetown University News:

danah boyd will help drive cross-campus collaboration among interdisciplinary faculty members as part of Georgetown’s new Center for Digital Ethics and Tech & Society Initiative, a network of centers across the university that shape technology’s impact on ethics and policy for the public good. boyd will host lectures and seminars and teach a spring course that examines evidence-based policymaking and data.

Congratulations Professor boyd!