Sara M. Watson to Join All Tech Is Human as a Siegel Research Fellow

All Tech Is Human is pleased to announce the appointment of Sara M. Watson as an incoming Research Fellow at Siegel Family Endowment for 2023-2024. Watson will use her extensive experience covering data, privacy, and tech policy from a global perspective to conduct research that will provide extensive ecosystem data about All Tech Is Human and the burgeoning Responsible Tech Movement. In her role, she will build on an extensive network of Siegel Research Fellows who are working to understand and shape the impact of technology on society.

Sara M. Watson is an independent industry analyst and technology critic. Her intersectional career covering data, privacy, and tech policy bridges industry, academia, and society. Sara has been a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where her work on personal data and privacy raised awareness of data’s role in the digital economy. As a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, her research on the media’s evolving coverage of the tech industry advocated for more constructive technology criticism. Sara has covered emerging tech trends impacts for enterprise technology leaders as a principal analyst at Forrester, Insider Intelligence, and the Gartner Research Board.

Her writing appears in The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, Slate, Motherboard, and other publications, and her work has been cited in the Financial Times and The New Yorker.

She holds an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet with distinction from the Oxford Internet Institute and graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a joint degree in English and American literature and film studies. She spent much of the last decade living in Singapore and China and is now based in New York City.

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to building a global, multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network that can tackle wicked tech & society issues at the speed of tech. Through our highly participatory and agile approach, we are creating a hub of people and knowledge in order to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. We have a Slack community of over 6k members across 75 countries, regular summits and mixers, a Responsible Tech Talent Pool of over 1.4k members, a large mentorship program, open working groups that develop community reports, and much more.