Dr. Anne L. Washington is an Assistant Professor of Data Policy in NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities. She applies her expertise in digital government to emerging data governance issues in organizations with a public mission. As a computer scientist trained in organizational ethnography, she unites inductive qualitative research methods with technology tools. At the broadest level, her multi-disciplinary work considers the impact of technology on society through the lens of digital record keeping. The National Science Foundation has funded her research multiple times including a five-year NSF CAREER grant on open government data.
She holds a BA in computer science from Brown University, a graduate degree in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University, and a PhD in Information Systems and Technology Management from George Washington University. She has served as a fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute of New York and the Peter Pribilla Foundation of Munich and Leipzig Germany. She teaches in the Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities department in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.