# Data Feminism in Action - Dr. Catherine D'Ignazio #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 18, 2025** 11:30AM - 12:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Hall D, Science Center** RSVP form: [https://Data Feminism in Action with Dr. Catherine D'Igazio - RSVP Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdp2TKwxsVSun-olJmiu8ZhsVlBM2tLo-OcGAOw4FTFyisX0g/viewform?usp=header) **Abstract**: As data and AI are increasingly mobilized in the service of global corporations, governments, and elite institutions, their unequal conditions of production, their inequitable impacts, and the asymmetry of innovation becomes increasingly more apparent. It is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: "Data science by whom? AI for whom? In whose interest? Informed by whose values?" And most importantly, "How do we begin to imagine alternatives for data’s collection, analysis, and communication?" These are some of the questions that emerge from what Lauren Klein and I call *Data Feminism* (MIT Press 2020). In this talk, I will present the data feminism principles, along with my most recent book, *Counting Feminicide* (MIT Press 2024). Drawing from a large-scale participatory AI project, I will describe how we built technology with data activists and journalists to enact alternative epistemological approaches to data science that center care, memory and justice. These informatic practices constitute a form of "epistemic disobedience" to the reigning logics of AI and data science. **Speaker Bio:** Catherine D'Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, [*Data Feminism*](https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/), co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. D'Ignazio's second book, [*Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action* ](https://mitpressonpubpub.mitpress.mit.edu/counting-feminicide)(MIT Press 2024), highlights how mainstream data science can learn a lot from the care and memory work of grassroots feminist activists across the Americas. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in FAccT, the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Big Data & Society, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. Read her full bio here: Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/node/1636141/event-feed.ics) Copy link link