Student Information
Graduate Student
Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology
College of Global Futures
Long Bio
Leah M. Friedman is a PhD student in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (HSD) program at Arizona State University and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She studies how people create mechanisms for bodily and community autonomy in the current landscape of digital surveillance technologies (e.x. mutual aid, community health initiatives, etc.). She is interested in how data-intensive technologies can be better designed and governed to support autonomy, and draws on the fields of data justice, health social movements, future studies in her research.
Leah is a facilitator with experience bringing together researchers and community members across technology and the social sciences. Prior to beginning her PhD, Leah worked on social dimensions of Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology with the FACET Lab at University of Pittsburgh and with the Center for Integrative Research in the Computing and Learning Sciences (CIRCLS). Leah is also a professional dancer, currently working with CONDER/dance, choreographing, and teaching dance in the Phoenix area.
Research Interests
- Data Justice
- Health Justice
- Future Studies and Anticipation
- Critical Theory
- Social Movements
- Resistance