Hi! 👋 I’m Dr. Nikki Stevens - a technology researcher, software engineer, and open source community member. Here’s what I’m up to right now:

🏢 Work

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, where I work in Catherine D’Ignazio’s Data plus Feminism lab.

📆 Events

Upcoming:

• Software From the Inside Out @ MIT Sept 24
• Talk (title TBD) @ Dartmouth Oct 9
• Talk (title TBD) & student visit @ Georgia Institute of Technology
• Talk: Speculative Software Methods @ University of Alabama, November 21

Recently:

• Society for the History of Technology presentation
• NIH: Exploring the Many Dimensions of Sex and Gender
• Spoke at at Berkman Klein’s Race + Tech working group
• Spoke at at Harvard’s Ethical Tech group
• AOIR 2023 in Philadelphia. I was on a panel with Sarah Florini, André Brock, and Jessie Daniels (a dream!)
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Open Science Meeting.
• Spoke at The Alan Turing Institute

📖 Research

• For/with the Data + Feminism Lab, writing about the social and political complexities of Participatory AI
• Writing my first monograph about the role of software in social reform
• Just finished a research project about US-based transgender activists and how they work with data in their activism

👨‍🏫 Teaching

• The Moviegoer’s Guide To The Future at Arizona State University (Summer 2024)
• Sociology of Databases at Hunter College (Fall 2024)

🏛️ 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.