Catherine D’Ignazio is an affiliated faculty member in CMS/W. She is Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the
Data + Feminism Lab. D'Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. D'Ignazio's book,
Data Feminism (MIT Press 2020), co-authored with Lauren F. Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her latest book,
Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (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. D'Ignazio regularly teaches the data journalism module for the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and previously taught the CMS/W graduate technology workshop.
