Astrid Countee
Co-Founder
Astrid helps organizations achieve impressive social impact with lean teams by analyzing their product landscape and communities, utilizing social methodologies to find insightful solutions, and keeping an inquisitive perspective to aid in innovation.
She is an anthropologist and technologist with a background in energy, biomedical anthropology and software development, who is passionate about climate change solutions, energy transition, ethical open source, and data science for social impact. She uses social science and technology to solve fuzzy problems.
Data Scientist Anthropologists as an Example of How to Be an Anthropologist in the Tech World
As both anthropologists and data scientists, we will examine strategies for leveraging both in the tech sector to help address pressing complex societal issues.
We will discuss our experiences merging anthropology, data science, and other forms of technological thinking over the last several years in fields as diverse as healthcare, climate policies, and finance as a backdrop to reflect on what it means to be an anthropologist and technologists in the contemporary world.
In light of the complex and urgent crisis that have erupted around the world over the last year, we want to connect anthropological insights, data science skills, and the ability to connect them with necessary social, economic, political and climate change initiatives and interventions.
Co-presented with Stephen Paff.