Interdisciplinary

Minali is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of African American Studies and Political Science. Her research focuses on the ways race is politically constructed and weaponized to serve both liberal and right-wing political projects. Her dissertation research examines how racialized data and statistical evidence generate new political challenges for racial justice movements, often subverting the radical demands of Black social movements. Minali is also part of the editorial team for a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Politics of the Multiracial Right (NYU Press 2026).

Elisa Celis is an assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science department at Yale University. She studies the manifestation of social and economic biases in our online lives via the algorithms that encode and perpetuate them. Her research leverages both experimental and theoretical approaches, and her work spans multiple disciplines including data science, machine learning, fairness in socio-technical systems and algorithm design.

At Yale she co-founded the Computation and Society Initiative.

Justin Farrell is a professor and author at Yale University, School of the Environment.

He studies culture and environment, with a focus on social class, moral conflict, and epistemology. He blends ethnographic fieldwork in rural communities with large-scale computational techniques from network science and machine learning.