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 laudeEXPERIENCE
| Research & Teaching | |
| 2025 - Pres. | "Public Interest Technology Clinic" (INFO 285), Peer Advisor & Student Researcher |
| 2024 - Pres. | I School Summer Python Bootcamp, Course Designer & Instructor |
| 2024 | "Social Issues of Information" (INFO 203), Graduate Student Instructor |
| 2020 - 2023 | Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Affiliate |
| 2016 - 2017 | Harvard-Smithsonian Banneker-Aztlán 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 |
| Professional | |
| 2023 | Center for Democracy and Technology, Summer Intern |
| 2021 - Pres. | American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Tech for Liberty Consultant |
| 2020 - 2021 | American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Staff Technologist |
| 2019 - 2020 | American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Technology Fellow |
| 2017 - 2019 | Space Telescope Science Institute, Research & Instrument Analyst |
PUBLICATIONS
2026
Putting the ‘Practice’ in Critical Technical Practice: A Decision-Making Pedagogy for the Public Interest Technology Clinic
Lauren M. Chambers + Diag Davenport
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT)
2025
Beyond Big Tech: Advocacy Technologists within Mission-Driven Civil Society Organizations
Lauren M. Chambers
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Impact Recognition
2024
Algorithmic Transparency and Participation through the Handoff Lens: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Census Bureau's Adoption of Differential Privacy
Amina Abdu + Lauren M. Chambers + Abigail Jacobs + Deirdre Mulligan
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT)
Reparations of the Horse? Algorithmic Reparation and Overspecialized Remedies
Colin Doyle + Melissa Garcia Alvarez + Pelle Tracey + Gabriel Grill + Cedric Whitney + Lauren M. Chambers
Big Data & Society
2019
MENTORSHIP & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
| 2025 – Pres. | Berkeley I School PhD Student Representative |
| 2023 – Pres. | Berkeley ORIAS Speakers Bureau Presenter |
| 2020 – Pres. | Coding it Forward Undergraduate Fellowship Mentor |
| 2022 – 2024 | Berkeley I School Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice Working Group PhD Representative |
| 2023 – 2024 | Berkeley I School Dean Search Committee Student Representative |
| 2023 – 2024 | Berkeley Social Science Data Laboratory (D-Lab) Consulting Fellow |
| 2021 - 2022 | BU Spark! Lab Workshop: "Effective Data Visualization" |
| 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 |
HONORS & AWARDS
| 2025 – Pres. | Public Voices Fellowship on Technology in the Public Interest, The OpEd Project & MacArthur Foundation |
| 2023 – Pres. | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) |
| 2023 – Pres. | Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 2025 | Berkeley School of Information, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award |
| 2024 | Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Graduate Research Award |
| 2023 – 2024 | 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 |