Deb Donig is a at Lecturer UC Berkeley’s School of Information in the MA in Data Science Program and an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Cal Poly. She is the co-founder of the Cal Poly Ethical Technology Initiative and the host of “Technically Human,” a podcast where she talks with major thinkers, writers, and industry-leading technologists about the relationship between humans and the technologies we create.

From 2023-2024, Deb was a Belfer Fellow at the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League. She is the lead Principal Investigator on the “Assessing the Future of the Ethical Technology Workforce” Cal Poly research team, funded by the National Science Foundation. She is a Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She previously served as an advisor on the Biden/Harris Policy Strategy Team in Higher Education, and the Public Interest Technology University Network.

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