Ep 007: Dr. Mary L. Gray

✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Dr. Mary L. Gray, PhD! 

Topics include:

✴️ How AI technology is shaping work 🤖

✴️ Ghost Work: millions of hidden jobs that fuel the tech industry 👻

✴️ Queer identity + care in the face of capitalism 🦄

✴️ The future of collaboration + data trusts

✨Dr. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. 

✨Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on several boards, including Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, in addition to chairing the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry. 

✨In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.

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LINKS TO DR. GRAY’S CONTENT

Mary’s Website

Buy her book: “Ghost Work”

Connect via LinkedIn

Learn about Project Resolve

Learn about Health Leads 

Learn about Health Equity Community Collaborative (HECC)

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Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond

Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda

Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle

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