EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Information Science
2021 – present
Yale University
B.S., Astrophysics and African American Studies
2013 – 2017, Timothy Dwight College, magna cum laude
EXPERIENCE
| 2023 |
Center for Democracy and Technologoy, Summer Intern |
| 2021 - Pres. |
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Tech for Liberty Consultant |
| 2020 - 2021 |
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Staff Technologist |
| 2020 - 2023 |
Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Affiliate |
| 2019 - 2020 |
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Technology Fellow |
| 2017 - 2019 |
Space Telescope Science Institute, Research & Instrument Analyst |
| 2016 - 2017 |
Harvard-Smithsonian Banneker Institute, Student Researcher |
| 2017 |
Yale Afro-American Cultural Center History Keepers, Student Researcher |
| 2015 - 2016 |
Yale Wright Laboratory, Student Researcher |
| 2015 |
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Student Researcher |
| 2012 - 2013 |
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Student Researcher |
MENTORSHIP & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
| 2023 – Pres. |
Berkeley Social Science Data Laboratory (D-Lab) Consulting Fellow |
| 2022 – Pres. |
Berkeley I School Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice Working Group PhD Representative |
| 2020 – Pres. |
Coding it Forward Undergraduate Fellowship Mentor |
| 2021 - 2022 |
BU Spark! Lab Workshop: "Effective Data Visualization" |
| Sept. 2020 |
Grace Hopper Celebration Mentoring Circle: "How to Adult" |
| 2019 |
"Drag v. AI" Workshop Organizer |
| 2018 - 2019 |
"Know Your Power" Workshop Organizer |
| 2019 |
"Build a Website in 60 Minutes or Less" Workshop Facilitator |
| 2019 |
"Using Python for Astronomical Data Analysis" Workshop Facilitator |
| 2018 - 2019 |
STScI Diversity and Inclusion Working Group Member |
| 2016 - 2017 |
First-year Counselor |
| 2015 - 2017 |
Physics Department Climate & Diversity Committee, undergraduate representative |
| 2015 - 2017 |
Undergraduate Admissions STEM focus group, liaison |
| 2015 - 2016 |
STARS Program for underrepresented first-years in STEM, peer mentor |
| 2015 - 2016 |
STEM Tour Guide |
| 2014 - 2016 |
Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association, Optical Telescope project co-leader |
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Transparency, Technocracy, and Trust in Participatory Algorithmic Governance: Lessons Learned from the US Census' Implementation of Differential Privacy
Amina Abdu*, Lauren M. Chambers*, Abigail Jacobs, Deirdre Mulligan (*equal contribution)
in prep
Should Reparations be Algorithmic?
Colin Doyle, Melissa Garcia Alvarez, Pelle Tracey, Gabriel Grill, Cedric Whitney, Lauren M. Chambers
Big Data & Society, in revision
2019
HONORS & AWARDS
| 2023 – Pres. |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) |
| 2023 – Pres. |
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 2023 – Pres. |
Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellowship |
| 2021 – 2023 |
Berkeley Fellowship |
| Nov. 2020 |
Boston Bar Association President’s Award, for advocacy supporting incarcerated folks amid COVID-19 |
| Apr. 2018 |
STScI Team Achievement Award, "for organization of the workshop 'Concrete Steps to Make your
Institution More Inclusive'" |
| May 2017 |
Phi Beta Kappa |
| May 2017 |
George Beckwith Prize (astrophysics thesis) |
| May 2017 |
William Pickens Prize (African American studies thesis) |
| 2015 - 2017 |
Edward A. Bouchet-Robertson Fellow |
| Jan. 2017 |
Chambliss Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award, AAS Winter Meeting |
| Aug. 2015 |
NASA Goddard John Mather Nobel Scholar |
SKILLS
Programming: Python (pandas, matplotlib, astropy, scipy, django, pyqt), R (dplyr, ggplot, leaflet, shiny), LabVIEW, LaTex, git, HTML/CSS/Javascript
Languages: Spanish, French