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:
- Society for the History of Technology presentation
- NIH: Exploring the Many Dimensions of Sex and Gender
- “Critical Technical Practice: The role of software in social change” at the University of Alabama
Recently:
- 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.