J. MARIE PERKINS (she/her), a PhD student in Information Science at the University of Illinois, studies natural language processing and social computing from a user-centered, humanistic perspective, working at the intersections of fields like cultural analytics, human-computer interaction, and data-driven policy design. Before turning to a career in data science, she spent several years pursuing cross-disciplinary projects in the worlds of advertising, public relations, and literary scholarship. An alumna of the M.A. in English program at McGill University, she has had her research federally funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) since 2019.
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