Creative Director - Water Justice & Technology Studio / Water Studio

P.I. - Planetary Computations Lab

Theodora is a writer, historian, and critical policy analyst. She has spent the past fifteen years investigating the political functions of predictive analytics including algorithms and artificial intelligence (A.I.) in water and natural resource management. She brings sustained historical and legal expertise to policy and environmental advocacy focusing on the enduring impact of mega tech powers in the climate catastrophe. Currently she teaches on Technology and Environmental Justice and Climate Transition at New York University.

Theodora has a dual Ph.D. in History and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and a M.A. in the Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics. Her work Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Computing in an Age of Anxiety, 1920-1970 won the Dean’s Humanities Award. She holds additional awards from the Charles Babbage Institute in Information Technology and the IEEE in History of Electrical and Computing Technology.