Mariel Garcia-Montes
she/her
Role
Researcher
Organization
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
About
Mariel García-Montes is a technology capacity builder and researcher from Mexico. Her sociotechnical research investigates the political configurations underlying today’s data technologies in the global majority world, and how they come into being through intention, resistance, and circumstance.
Currently, Mariel is at the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation focuses on the 20th and 21st century trajectories of surveillance technologies in Mexico. Her main topics of interest are privacy and information security, technological openness movements, and public interest technology.
Mariel has worked in communications, instructional design, and research around artificial intelligence and open data, privacy and security, and other digital literacies for civil society organizations around the world. She has worked with organizations like UNICEF, Wikimedia Foundation, Internews, and the Latin American Initiative on Open Data (ILDA). She is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet, at the Data + Feminism Lab, and a graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.