Tricia Wang is a tech ethnographer obsessed with designing equity into systems. Part data geek, part designer, and part community organizer, her belief that technology must serve humanity is the thread across her work from the public to the private sector. She is the co-founder of Sudden Compass, a consulting firm working with Fortune 500 companies and tech startups from Spotify to P&G and Google. She is a frequent conference keynoter, a pioneer in operationalizing data science with what she calls Thick Data, which she describes in her TED talk. Her tech career started with selling some of the first texting and mobile phones services to researching the rise of social networks in Web 2.0 and to now advocating for Web 3.0 to deliver social impact through more human-centered applications of crypto and blockchain enabled technologies. Her focus on tech has always been in adoption amongst marginalized communities from the US to China to South America. She advises starts-ups and nonprofits. She is an advisor to Decentral Labs at the University of Lisbon. She is a fellow at Geo Tech Atlantic Council, an affiliate at Data & Society, and has served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Data Council. She was also a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow. She optimizes her life to be spent dancing, eating, hanging with her dog Elle, and her grandma. Follow her on twitter or instagram @triciawang. www.triciawang.com .
