Catherine D'Ignazio

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Catherine D'Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, where she directs the Data + Feminism Lab, which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice, particularly as they relate to space and place. A self-described scholar, artist and designer, and 'hacker mama,' she works across feminist technology, data literacy, and civic engagement. Before MIT she was an Assistant Professor of Data Visualization and Civic Media in the Journalism Department at Emerson College. With Rahul Bhargava she built DataBasic.io, a suite of data-literacy tools, and she has organized reproductive justice hackathons. She is co-author, with Lauren F. Klein, of Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), and a leading figure in feminist data science.

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• Also known as: Catherine D’Ignazio

Notes

STAGING: temp id EB-20. D'Ignazio is MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, NOT the MIT Media Lab — no affiliation edge to CTL-E-4116 (MIT Media Lab) is emitted, because a citation must not contradict its claim. CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): D'Ignazio brings the design practice: data feminism (EB-21) is the packet's method for building, not only critiquing, data systems.

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• Massachusetts Institute of Technology — affiliated with
  D'Ignazio is Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT (live record CTL-E-4211, School), per MIT DUSP's people page.

Referenced by

• Data Feminism — authored by → this record

Sources

• MIT DUSP people page (accessed 2026-10-29): Catherine D'Ignazio, Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning; Director of the Data + Feminism Lab, which 'uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice, particularly as they relate to space and place.' (One MIT News piece styles it 'Data and Feminism Lab'; the lab's own styling, used here, is 'Data + Feminism Lab.' Rank history: older MIT pages say Assistant Professor; DUSP and an MIT SA+P promotion notice confirm Associate Professor with tenure.) (primary source · build store)
• MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing (accessed 2026-10-29): prior post as Assistant Professor of Data Visualization and Civic Media, Journalism Department, Emerson College (the fact DUSP omits); self-described scholar, artist/designer, 'hacker mama.' (primary source · build store)

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