Hi! 👋 I’m Dr. Nikko Stevens - a technology researcher, software engineer, and open source community member. Here’s what I’m up to right now:
🏢 Work
I’m current an Assistant Professor of Statistical and Data Sciences at Smith College. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, where I worked in Catherine D’Ignazio’s Data plus Feminism lab.
Last year, I co-founded the Liberation + AI Think Tank and I currently serve as one of it’s leaders.
📆 Events
Upcoming:
Recently:
- March 10-13: I gave the closing keynote @ Code4Lib @ Princeton.
- April 18-20: I joined the Black Sound Lab at Fort Valley State University to create and install another data-driven sound art piece
- June 20-July 1: Princeton University Press Book Development Grant Writers’ Retreat
- Software From the Inside Out @ MIT Sept 24
- Talk: Reverse Engineering as Speculative Method @ Dartmouth College Oct 9
- Visiting sermon student visit @ Georgia Institute of Technology
- Talk: Speculative Software Methods @ University of Alabama, November 21
- 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