Sara M. Watson (she/her) is co-founder and lead curator of A People’s History of Tech. As a technology critic, her work aims to offer embodied, practical, and accessible tools and framings for examining our relationship to technologies, culture, and power.

Her intersectional career covering data, privacy, and emerging tech bridges industry, policy, and academia. Sara has been a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where her work on personal data and privacy raised awareness of data’s role in the digital economy. As a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, her research on the media’s evolving coverage of technology advocated for more constructive technology criticism. As Siegel Research Fellow with All Tech Is Human she mapped the responsible technology ecosystem. Sara has also covered emerging tech trends as a principal industry analyst at Forrester, Insider Intelligence, and the Gartner Research Board.