A leading expert on youth, privacy and data-driven technologies, danah boyd examines the complicated social and cultural dynamics underpinning the "big data" phenomenon, the challenges of interpreting found data, and the problematic implications of using algorithms designed for one problem to address societal issues without accounting for unintended consequences.

danah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society, an NYC-based research institute. She is also a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Visiting Researcher at New York University and a research affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She has been called one of the most influential women in technology (Fast Company) and "the smartest academic in the technology field" (Fortune).