People
Faculty
Terri Adams, Ph.D.
Terri Adams, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and she currently serves as the Associate Dean for Research with the Graduate School. Additionally, she serves as the Deputy Director of the NOAA Cooperative Science Center for Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (NCAS-M) at the university. In addition to her administrative duties, Dr. Adams’ conducts research that takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues that have both theoretical and practical implications. Her specific research interests include emergency management, policing, violence, and the impact of trauma and disasters on individuals and organizations. Her most recent work centers on the decision-making processes of both individuals and organizations in the face of crisis events. Her most recent publication, Policing in Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management is co-authored with Dr. Leigh Anderson.
Naniette H. Coleman
Naniette H. Coleman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley and a UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab. Since 2016, Naniette has directed the AAC&U award winning Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy at Berkeley. Naniette is an affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the Center for Long-term Cybersecurity, and the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy at Berkeley as well as the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Berkman-Klein Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard University. Naniette’s research sits at the intersection of the sociology of culture and organizations and focuses on cybersecurity, surveillance, and privacy in the US context. Specifically Naniette’s research examines how organizations assess risk, make decisions, and respond to data breaches and organizational compliance with state, federal, and international privacy laws. Naniette holds a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Democracy, Politics, and Institutions from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and both an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Communication from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. A non-traditional student, Naniette’s prior professional experience includes local, state, and federal service, as well as work for two international organizations, and two universities.
Nicole Jenkins, Ph.D.
Nicole is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University. She received her Doctoral degree from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the Department of Sociology in 2020. She obtained an M.A. in Sociology in 2017 and B.A. in Sociology in 2015 from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. In 2013, she received an A.A. in Criminal Justice after serving six years of active duty in the United States Air Force as Military Police. She is a proud advocate for social justice and is committed to teaching with such emphasis in topics such as race and ethnic studies, sociology of poverty, problems of the black community, and research methods.
Amy Yeboah Quarkume, Ph.D.
Dr. Amy Yeboah Quarkume, affectionately known as Dr. A, is a daughter of Africa, scholar, filmmaker, data scientist and Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. She holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies, two Masters of Arts in Sociology and African American Studies, and a forthcoming Masters of Science degree in Data Science. Dr. Quarkume is an Andrew Mellon New Direction Fellow, Mellon Just Futures Initiative invited Social Justice Consortium partner, invited presenter for Scribe Video Center’s Storyville series by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Center for Atmospheric Research Innovator Fellow, and a White House Initiative HBCU All-Star Campus Mentor. Her work as a data scientist, centers around AI Bias, data inequality and environmental justice. Currently, she employs an Africana Studies framework to examine the intersections of race and technology. Dr. A is presently, co-facilitating the creation of the Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics (CADSA) advancing Howard University’s first major effort in becoming a hub for data science social impact research and training for the next generation of data scientists. She has published in the Journal of Women, Gender, and Families of Color; Mosaic Magazine; Black Scholar; CLA Journal and is currently working on her second book project Data Pollution and Savage Algorithms. She has also contributed to and been an invited guest on BET News, PBS NewsHour, Direct TV, American Radio Works, Al Jazeera America’s The Stream, Philadelphia Community Access Media, Roland Martin TV One News Show, and Mother Jones.Opening Plenary Speaker
Anthony K. Wutoh, Ph.D., R.Ph.
Anthony K. Wutoh, Ph.D., R.Ph. is the Provost of Howard University. He previously served in various roles at the University including as Dean of the College of Pharmacy and Assistant Provost for International Programs. Dr. Wutoh has also served as Director for the Center for Minority Health Services Research, and the Center of Excellence. Dr. Wutoh received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1987. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, and Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy Administration (Pharmacoepidemiology) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Pharmacy. Dr. Wutoh has varied research interests including pharmacoepidemiology, international health, health services/outcomes research, and evaluation of large population databases, particularly in the area of AIDS and HIV infection in older patients. Dr. Wutoh has received over $50 million dollars in grant funding from several sources including; NIH, CDC, USAID, HRSA, AHRQ and foundations, and has published numerous research articles on HIV disease, medication adherence, disease state management, and various other topics in respected research journals, including; the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Services Research, AIDS & Behavior, the Journal of the National Medical Association, and the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2022 Motivational Speaker
Paula Moreno
Paula Moreno founded and directs Manos Visibles, a non-profit foundation established to promote social inclusion and peace building in Colombia. Moreno served on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. From 2007 to 2010, she served as the Minister of Culture in Colombia—the first Afro-Colombian woman and the youngest person to lead a cabinet-level ministry in the history of the country. In 2010, Moreno was selected by the Council of the Americas as one of the most influential young leaders in the region. The same year, she received the Order of Saint Charles for her work in government. In 2011, she was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by Mexico’s President Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa for contributing to the improvement of Mexico-Colombia relations. She was a Yale World Fellow and has been a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow for Urban and Regional Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Moreno holds a degree in Italian language and culture from the Italian Institute of Culture and a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from the Autonomous University of Colombia. Studying the sustainable use of biodiversity by local communities in Colombia, Moreno earned a master of philosophy in management studies at the University of Cambridge.SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2022 Keynote Speaker
Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D.
Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She holds affiliations in the School of Education & Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the "Genius Award") for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient. Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment, and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the nation’s oldest Black think tank. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications.Closing Plenary Speaker
LaVerne H. Council
LaVerne H. Council began her career as an "intrapreneur" over 35 years ago, developing a name as a transformational leader; focusing people over product, outcomes over activity. She is a global operations and information technology strategist and change agent, and her experience as a global executive provides her a unique perspective as an influencer, advisor, and coach. She is a founder and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Emerald One and a member of the board of directors for ConMed, Mathematica, March of Dimes, Concentrix, and GirlUp. LaVerne’s work as a global executive leader with organizations like Grant Thornton, Johnson & Johnson; Dell, Inc.; and Ernst & Young, LLC give her a unique perspective on the opportunities and challenges faced by both CxO executives and their employees. In her role as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, LaVerne not only created the technology strategy, investment, and implementation for the largest civilian agency in the federal government, she transformed the executive leadership team to the most culturally diverse in the federal government. LaVerne focuses on the health of an organization, the cohesion of the team, and the strength of the individual, weaving the professional path with personal development. A volunteer since the age of 5, LaVerne advises leaders and teams on servant leadership, spotlighting the unique gifts each person brings to the team and using oneself to improve the lives of others.Guest Speakers
Shawndra B. Hill, Ph.D.
Dr. Shawndra Hill joined the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School as a part-time senior lecturer in September 2020. She received her PhD and MPhil in Information Systems from NYU's Stern School of Business in 2007 and 2003 respectively, and her BS in Mathematics from Spelman College and her BEE in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995. Presently, Shawndra Hill is also a Principal Scientist and Manager in Tech. Prior to joining industry, she was a professor in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Broadly, she studies data mining, machine learning and statistical relational learning and their alignment with business problems. Specifically, she researches the value to companies of mining data on how consumers interact with each other on online platforms — for targeted marketing, advertising, health and fraud detection purposes. Her current research focuses on cross channel advertising and the resulting interactions between TV content and online (ad click) behaviors.
Karen Levy, Ph.D., J.D.
Karen Levy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, and associate member of the faculty of Cornell Law School. She researches how law and technology interact to regulate social life, with particular focus on social and organizational aspects of surveillance. Much of Dr. Levy's research analyzes the uses of monitoring for social control in various contexts, from long-haul trucking to intimate relationships. She is also interested in how data collection uniquely impacts, and is contested by, marginalized populations. Dr. Levy is also a fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Dr. Levy previously served as a law clerk in the United States Federal Courts.
Brandeis Marshall, Ph.D.
Brandeis teaches, speaks and writes about the impact of data practices on technology and society. Her work contributes to the data engineering, data science, and data/computer science education fields. Through Dr. Marshall’s data education firm DataedX, she guides current tech workers in building data equity skills. Her first book, Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity, is expected to be released later in 2022. It unearths the interlocking computational and civic implications of data on digital processes, structures and institutions. Dr. Marshall holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. She is on sabbatical leave from Spelman College, where she is a Full Professor of Computer Science.
Kyla McMullen, Ph.D.
Dr. Kyla McMullen earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she was also a Meyerhoff Scholar. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2007-2012). While earning her Ph.D. she was also a faculty member at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. At Wayne State University she taught computer literacy courses to over 2,000 students. Dr. McMullen is the first (and currently the only) woman of color to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is currently a tenured faculty member in the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Department. Dr. McMullen has a personal commitment to encouraging women and minorities to pursue careers in computing and other STEM fields. She is the author of "Beautiful, Black, and Brainy" and "Brilliant is the New Black" which showcase hundreds of exceptional young African Americans who excel in STEM fields and don’t fit the typical "scientist" stereotype.Praxis to Power Speakers
Randal Pinkett, Ph.D.
Randal Pinkett, Ph.D., MBA, has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and scholar. He is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a global, multimillion-dollar research, training, consulting, technology, and data analytics firm. BCT’s mission is to provide insights about diverse people that lead to equity. The company has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms, Ernst & Young as EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Manage HR Magazine as a Top 10 Firm for Diversity & Inclusion, the Black Enterprise BE100s list of the nation’s largest African American-owned businesses, and the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Dr. Pinkett is an expert in several areas relating to emerging technologies, "big data" analytics, social innovation, culture, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and is a regular contributor on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox Business News. An international public speaker, he is the author and co-author of several books including Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Analyze, Measure and Improve Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness, Black Faces in High Places: 10 Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay There, Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multimillion-Dollar Business, and No-Money Down CEO: How to Start Your Dream Business with Little or No Cash. He holds five degrees including: a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University; a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England; and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, MBA, and Ph.D. from MIT. Most notably, he was the first and only African-American to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at Rutgers University; he was inducted to the Academic All-America Hall of Fame, as a former high jumper, long jumper, sprinter and captain of the men’s track and field team; and he was the winner of NBC’s hit reality television show, "The Apprentice." A lifetime member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, he is happily married to Natasha Williams-Pinkett and the proud father of two daughters, Amira and Aniyah, and two sons, Jaz and Marquis.
Jeffrey Robinson, Ph.D.
Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D. is an award-winning business school professor, international speaker and entrepreneur. Since 2008, he has been a leading faculty member at Rutgers Business School where he is an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship and the Academic Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development and research fellow of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development. Through his research, business leadership and community activities he makes direct impacts corporate workplaces, entrepreneurs and economic development policy in the state of New Jersey and beyond. Emerging from his pioneering research, the New Jersey Social Entrepreneurship Institute and the CUEED Pipeline to Inclusive Innovation are national and international models for economic development and social problem solving using entrepreneurial approaches. He leads research on four National Science Foundation funded research projects related to inclusive innovation including the GEM Inclusion in Innovation Initiative (GEM i4). Dr. Robinson is the author of many articles and books on the topics of management, entrepreneurship and workforce diversity. He is the co-author along with Dr. Randal Pinkett of Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness (published by Harper Collins Leadership). In 2022, he and Dr. Pinkett will release Black Faces in High Places: 10 Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay There (also to be published by Harper Collins Leadership).Panelists
Andre Brock, Ph.D.
André Brock is an Associate Professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, videogames, weblogs, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His award-winning book, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures", theorizes Black everyday lives as Black joy, mediated by networked digital technologies.
Courtney D. Cogburn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Courtney D. Cogburn employs a transdisciplinary research strategy to improve the characterization and measurement of racism and in examining the role of racism in the production of racial inequities in health. She is also conducting research exploring the use of emerging technologies, including computational social science to examine patterns and psychosocial effects of cultural racism and how virtual reality experiences can lead to changes in attitudes, social perception and engagement (empathy, racial bias, structural competence and behavior). Dr. Cogburn is the lead creator of 1000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality racism experience that was developed in collaboration with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University and which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. She is on the faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center and a core member of the Data Science Institute where she also co-chairs the Computational Social Science working group. Dr. Cogburn is also a faculty affiliate of the Center on African American Politics and Society. She directs the Cogburn Research Group and co-directs the Justice Equity + Tech (JE+T) Laboratory at Columbia University. Dr. Cogburn completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar Program and at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology, and MSW from the University of Michigan and her BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia. She is also a board member of the International Center Advocates Against Discrimination.
Susana Edjang
Susana Edjang is a peace and security, international development, global health and policy expert who recently served as Minister Counselor on Security Council Affairs, at the Permanent Mission of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations (UN), in New York. Previously, she was a Policy & Advocacy Specialist at the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Liaison Office to the African Union and the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; was Economic, Social and Development Affairs Officer and as Project Manager for his signature movement Every Woman Every Child at the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. Before that, Susana was H4+ (UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNFPA, UN Women, WHO and the World Bank) Coordinator at the UNFPA to advance the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015, parliamentary advisor on global health and climate change at the UK Parliament, and promoted the institutional partnership between UK health institutions and their counterparts in Africa and Asia at THET, a UK NGO. Originally from Equatorial Guinea, Susana has co-founded and participates in various initiatives on global health and African Diaspora community innovation in Africa, Europe and Latin America. Susana is co-author of "Working in International Health" (OUP).
Kyla McMullen, Ph.D.
Dr. Kyla McMullen earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she was also a Meyerhoff Scholar. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2007-2012). While earning her Ph.D. she was also a faculty member at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. At Wayne State University she taught computer literacy courses to over 2,000 students. Dr. McMullen is the first (and currently the only) woman of color to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is currently a tenured faculty member in the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Department. Dr. McMullen has a personal commitment to encouraging women and minorities to pursue careers in computing and other STEM fields. She is the author of "Beautiful, Black, and Brainy" and "Brilliant is the New Black" which showcase hundreds of exceptional young African Americans who excel in STEM fields and don’t fit the typical \"scientist\" stereotype.
Bhaso Ndzendze, Ph.D.
Dr Bhaso Ndzendze is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department: Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. Dr Ndzendze is also founder and head of the 4IR and Digital Policy Research Unit at the University of Johannesburg, and a digital policy fellow at the Berlin-based African Policy Research Institute. He is author of two books on artificial intelligence and international relations and is editor in chief of the journal Digital Policy Studies. His scholarship and opinion on technology, society and digital policy has appeared in numerous edited books and the press.
Danielle Olson, Ph.D.
Dr. Danielle M. Olson is an AI/ML Human Factors Researcher at Apple based in Seattle, WA. She collaborates with technical and creative partners to inform how machine learning-powered products are built at Apple. She leads research to better understand the infinite ways human experiences with technologies can vary so that she can advocate for humans throughout the design and development process.
Evans Osabuohien, Ph.D.
Evans Osabuohien is a Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics & Development Studies at Covenant University, Nigeria. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation(AvH) and Swedish Institute. He coordinates the Research Linkage Programme between Witten/Herdecke University, Germany and Covenant University, Nigeria with funding from AvH. His primary research interest centres around development, institutional economics, and agricultural/land economics.
Lebogang Ramafoko
Lebogang is currently the Executive Director of Oxfam South Africa. Lebogang is an outspoken feminist thinker and strategist, a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and trainer who is passionate about social justice particularly for young women and girls. Lebogang combines her own life experience as a black woman who grew up in Apartheid South Africa, thrust into activism at an early age and the skills she acquired through her training to speak out against injustice wherever she goes. She is one of the prominent media commentators and advocates on various social issues facing women in South Africa.
Yahya Shaikh, M.D.
Dr. Yahya Shaikh is a physician specializing in primary care and public health. His public health practice and training includes human rights and humanitarian assistance. His research has focused on the application of decolonizing methodologies in research. He previously served on a federal Task Force where he was focused on ensuring that the future of technology and health is equitably distributed. He is currently at MITRE where he is helping shape participatory methodologies for research and policy development."Real Talk" Roundtable Discussions
Howard University
Howard University has long held a commitment to the study of disadvantaged persons in American society and throughout the world. The goal is the elimination of inequities related to race, color, social, economic and political circumstances. As the only truly comprehensive predominantly Black university, Howard is one of the major engineers of change in our society. Through its traditional and cutting-edge academic programs, the University seeks to improve the circumstances of all people in the search for peace and justice on earth.
Mathematica
Mathematica is the insight partner that illuminates the path to progress for public- and private-sector changemakers. We apply expertise at the intersection of data, methods, policy, and practice, translating big questions into deep insights that weather the toughest tests. Driven by our mission to improve public well-being, we collaborate closely with our clients to improve programs, refine strategies, and enhance understanding.
SICSS-Howard/Mathematica
The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) were created to provide free training to the next generation of researchers at the intersection of social science and data science— and to incubate cutting-edge research across disciplinary boundaries. Participants at each institute a) hear lectures by leading scholars in the field on a range of subjects from automated text analysis to experiments on social media platforms; b) participate in group training exercises; and c) launch interdisciplinary research projects. SICSS thus aims to provide open, high-quality training in computational social science to researchers around the world in order to accelerate the growth of the field and ensure that it develops practices that are in the long-term interests of science and society. Lectures are live-streamed to all SICSS sites from a central location and supported via a vibrant online community that includes open-source education materials that can be used for further self-study or as a model for computational social science courses within other organizations.Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talks
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Since its inception in 1999, the Africa Center has served as a forum for research, academic programs, and the exchange of ideas with the aim of enhancing citizen security by strengthening the effectiveness and accountability of African institutions.
BCT Partners
At BCT Partners, our greatest strength is our people. We care passionately about creating a diverse and equitable society. We combine this commitment with specialized expertise around topics such as unconscious bias and inclusive management and use insights from big data, machine learning, and precision analytics to develop solutions that lead to societal change.
Campus-wide Institutional Survey Research and Data Collection (Graduate Division UC Berkeley)
The Graduate Division is committed to expanding the diversity of Berkeley’s student body, and supporting students from all backgrounds, especially those from underrepresented groups, in their academic, personal and professional journeys.
Cite Black Women
It's simple: Cite Black Women. We have been producing knowledge since we blessed this earth. We theorize, we innovate, we revolutionize the world. We do not need mediators. We do not need interpreters. It's time to disrupt the canon. It's time to upturn the erasures of history. It's time to give credit where credit is due. We must reconfigure the politics of knowledge production by engaging in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.
Just Tech program (SSRC)
The Just Tech program foregrounds questions of power, justice, and the public impact of new technologies, investigating evidence of bias and harms while imagining and creating more just technological futures. Through the Just Tech Fellowship and digital platform, the program creates a new ecosystem of research and social engagement, one that enriches public discourse, informs public policy, and radically imagines just futures where social and public interests drive technological change, instead of the other way around.
MITRE
At MITRE, we solve problems for a safer world. Through our federally funded R&D centers and public-private partnerships, we work across government to tackle challenges to the safety, stability, and well-being of our nation.
Research Data Management Team, UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley's Research Data Management Program is a collaborative campus-wide program led jointly by Research IT and the Library to help faculty, staff, and students manage research data throughout the research process. With our partners across campus, we offer a discipline-agnostic service that supports researchers as they find, generate, store, share, and archive their data.
vary CSS
Computational Social Science is an exciting new field of research, and we think it should be diverse and inclusive as it grows. To this end, we provide links to resources, which are intended to support new and emerging CSS scholars currently underrepresented in the field. We also maintain a database of these scholars, which can be used for collaboration and networking, or for finding new voices to speak at conferences, on panels, and in workshop tutorials. These resources are compiled and updated by the CSS community.Participants
Andrea Adams
Andrea Adams, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., is an Assistant Professor at University of the District of Columbia whose research is focused on data privacy, crowdsourcing, and gender-based violence. Andrea teaches ethics in the Criminal Justice Bachelors/Homeland Security Master’s program. Andrea is a Board Advisor for Red Dot Foundation, a crowdsourcing smartphone app that maps gender-based violence.
Nayantara Biswas
Nayantara Biswas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research examines the impact of public policies on maternal and child health and labor outcomes in developing countries. She uses data-driven techniques in evidence-based policy research with a focus on equity.
Renee Clarke
Renee Clarke is a clinical public health professional at University of California, Berkeley. She is passionate about improving the healthcare system in the United States, globally and hopes to combat the many healthcare disparities many systems encounter. She loves connecting with like minded individuals of all disciplines.
Rumeysanur Erikli Dogan
Rumeysanur Erikli Dogan is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at the Marmara University. She received a double major in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and History at the Bogazici University, and earned her M.A in the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department at the Central European University.
Grace Flores-Robles
Grace Flores-Robles is a fourth year Psychology Ph.D. student at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her research examines how people see and sanction system-level injustice.
Erica Goto
Erica Goto is a human geographer who uses quantitative and qualitative data to understand the vulnerability, risk, and adaptive capacity of communities living in hazard-prone areas, and stakeholders' co-production of actionable knowledge.
Rebecca Hsu
Rebecca Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Howard University and their research interests are focused on crime and especially intimate partner violence.
Kristina Lee
Kristina E. Lee is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Northwestern University. Her research explores questions surrounding the utility of the state for addressing inequity through a focus on political sociology, race, transnationalism, and Blackness in Latin America. Her dissertation analyzes Mexican and Peruvian state strategies for Afro-descendant inclusion.
Daniel Lobo
Daniel Lobo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. As a cultural sociologist, he is interested in understanding the cultural processes of schools and firms that lead to the reproduction of inequality in education and the labor market.
Amber Mackey
Amber Mackey is pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work examines policy, protest, and race and ethnic politics. In addition to working in the academy, Amber is dedicated to learning and teaching about data collection and advocacy work to others within her community.
Imani Munyaka
Imani Munyaka is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Computer Science and Engineering department. Her research focuses on social equity in the areas of security, privacy and usability.
Getamesay Shiwenzu Nigussie
Getamesay Nigussie is an environmentalist and development practitioner with extensive research and development experience in agriculture, natural resources, and development studies. Getamesay is currently a Ph.D. student in Environmental science at Addis Ababa University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences with research interests in sustainable groundwater and land management. Getamesay also has expertise in development studies, agricultural policy, and agrarian transformations.
Susana Quiros
Susana Quiros, has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from Pennsylvania State University. As an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri in the Department of Public Health, she investigates how legal status influences immigrant health, and how anti-immigrant policies may have multigenerational effects.
Asha Yadav
Asha Yadav is a doctoral candidate in Special Education and Clinical Sciences at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on policies and practices that influence the abilities of families with children with disabilities from underprivileged and marginalized communities to attain adequate access and use of services in early childhood.
Bing-Jie Yen
Bing-Jie’s scholarly niche is at the intersection of public health, economics, and data science. Her research applies quantitative method to healthcare accessibility and equity for vulnerable populations. In her ongoing dissertation at Indiana University Bloomington, she makes longitudinal assessments of mental healthcare utilization and the risk of suicidal behaviors with causal inference methods.Organizer
Naniette H. Coleman
Naniette H. Coleman is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and a multi-year UC-National Laboratory Graduate Fellow (Los Alamos). She is the only social scientist selected for this distinction in the history of the program. Since 2016, Naniette has directed the AAC&U award winning Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy (Coleman Research Lab) at Berkeley. Naniette is an affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the Center for Long-term Cybersecurity, and the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy at Berkeley as well as the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Berkman-Klein Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard University. Naniette’s work sits at the intersection of the sociology of culture and organizations and focuses on cybersecurity, surveillance, and privacy in the US context. Specifically, Naniette’s research examines how organizations assess risk, make decisions, and respond to data breaches and organizational compliance with state, federal, and international privacy laws. Naniette holds a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Democracy, Politics, and Institutions from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and both an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Communication from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. A non-traditional student, Naniette’s prior professional experience includes local, state, and federal service, as well as work for two international organizations, and two universities.Planning Team
Akira Bell
Akira Bell is Mathematica’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She oversees technology infrastructure and governance and leads strategy for delivering innovation in support of client and internal business function needs. Before joining Mathematica in 2018, Bell led the IT function for Aramark’s higher education business unit. Previously, she served as a divisional Chief Information Officer within the Hess Corporation and held various program management, application development, and technology consulting roles with UnitedHealth, IBM Global Services, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. While at Hess, she guided IT strategy during the acquisition of its retail division by Marathon Speedway and was part of the team recognized by CIO magazine with a CIO100 Award for delivering innovative IT solutions during Hurricane Sandy recovery. Bell earned a B.S.E. in Operations Research from Princeton University, where she serves as an alumni mentor for women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
