SMITH COLLEGE

To help advance this research, I direct a Data Ethnography and Advocacy Lab (DEAL) at Smith College. We are currently investigating the socio-cultural provenance and reliability of a number of disclosure datasets in the U.S. - or, in other words, datasets produced by the same institutions those datasets are meant to hold accountable. In addition to helping contextualize these public interest resources, our work is innovating methodologies for studying the social conditions that enable, foster, or incentivize deceptive or distortive data practices.