Hi! π I’m Dr. Nikki Stevens - a technology researcher, software engineer, and open source community member. Here’s what I’m up to right now:
π’ Work
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, where I work in Catherine D’Ignazio’s Data plus Feminism lab.
π Events
Upcoming:
- Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI
- Speaking at Berkman Klein’s Race + Tech working group
- Speaking at Harvard’s Ethical Tech group
Recently:
- AOIR 2023 in Philadelphia. I was on a panel with Sarah Florini, AndrΓ© Brock, and Jessie Daniels (a dream!)
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Open Science Meeting.
- Mentored scholars and artists who submitted to HASTAC 2023’s Creative Futures exhibit. This was a project co-created with Molly Morin
- Advising engineering students at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering
- Finished a large sculptural data visualization for HASTAC - installed at Pratt in June Read about the sculpture and the open source code
- Spoke at The Alan Turing Institute
- Assisted the Black Sound Lab’s director Allie Martin with an art installation in Colombus, Ohio. write up
- Teaching a 1-week kids summer web dev / programming camp at The Space on Main
π Research
- For/with the Data + Feminism Lab, Studying the data activism practices of trans-led groups in the United States
- Writing my first monograph: applying abolitionist principles to software creation practices (aka, I ask and answer “are there ways to make software to advance social good?”)
π¨βπ« Teaching
The Moviegoer’s Guide To The Future at Arizona State University (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
ποΈ Civic and Community Life
- Trying to figure out how to be a useful elected official (read more at: Open Gov Vermont.)
- I’m elected to the Bradford select board, and I’m newly retired from being the Interm Town Health Officer.