danah boyd
Data & Society Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder and president of Data & Society
danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at
Microsoft Research, the founder and president of
Data & Society, and a Visiting Professor at
New York University. Her research is focused on addressing social and cultural inequities by understanding the relationship between technology and society. Her most recent books -
"It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" and
"Participatory Culture in a Networked Age" - examine the intersection of everyday practices and social media. She is a 2011
Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, a Director of both
Crisis Text Line and
Social Science Research Council, and a Trustee of the
National Museum of the American Indian. She received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University, a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California, Berkeley.