Michaela Ashton Hayes

Michaela Hayes is a Junior Software Developer with Data-Pop Alliance’s Data Science team. She holds B.A.s in English Literature and Philosophy from Colorado State University and an MSc in Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She just completed a Full-Stack Development bootcamp with CodeOp, an international tech school for women, trans, and non-binary people.

In addition to studying software development she has been working as Data Lead for a project on feminist bookselling, where she is analyzing 24 years worth of data from the esteemed publication Feminist Bookstore News. She has just presented at The University of Newcastle on this topic and the overarching potential of feminist data science, especially in fields that typically don’t consider such avenues.

She has publications in The New Americanist (The University of Edinburgh/The University of Warsaw), Post 45 Data Collective (Emory University/Yale University), The University of Edinburgh’s Gender.Ed website, and The Postgraduate Gender Network of Scotland. Her topics of interest include technologically-mediated gender-based violence, algorithmic bias, and AI ethics and safety.

Above anything, she is most passionate about feminist technoscience and exploring answers to the question “How can we use data science to remake the world?”