Catherine D'ignazio
Associate Professor Of Urban Science And Planning, DUSP
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorCatherine D'Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT and director of the Data + Feminism Lab, where she applies data and computational methods to advance gender and racial justice in urban contexts. A scholar, designer, and activist, she bridges academia, art, and civic tech—running reproductive justice hackathons, creating public data sculptures, and leading participatory data visualizations on sea level rise. Co-creator of Databasic.io, she builds entry points for newcomers to data science and co-authored the influential Data Feminism (MIT Press) and the 2024 Counting Feminicide, which translate feminist theory into practical data activism. Her work is published in leading journals and has been exhibited internationally, reflecting a rare blend of rigorous research, hands-on toolmaking, and creative public engagement.
14 years of coding experience
Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (29)
prefix10
data-journalism10
entity9
creative-commons8
journalism8
python8
geography8
data-science8
instagram6
geotagging5
browser-extension5
geonames5
environmental4
chrome4
visualizations4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mitmedialab/NewsPix
Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
NewsPix is a suite of apps by Matt Carroll, Catherine D'Ignazio and Jay Vachon that drive engagement in local news through pictures and visualizations. Our first app is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that delivers breaking news to the new tab window of a desktop user's browser.
Contributions:52 commits, 50 pushes, 12 comments in 2 years 2 months
browser-extensionchromefirefoxvisualizations
mitmedialab/Boston-Attention-Mapping
Oct 2012 - Jul 2018
Contributions:105 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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