Organizers

Matthew K. Gold, DPI Director

Matthew K. Gold (he/him) is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he is Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, and where he directs the MA Program in Digital Humanities and the MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization. With Lauren F. Klein, he co-edits the Debates in the Digital Humanities series at the University of Minnesota Press, and has recently co-edited Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities and Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019. His collaborative digital humanities projects, including Manifold Scholarship, the CUNY Academic Commons, and The Commons In A Box have been supported by grants from a the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and other funding institutions. He is Past President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based scholarly society for the digital humanities, and the Association for Digital Humanities Organizations, the international association for DH organizations.

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Lisa M. Rhody, DPI Deputy Director

Lisa Marie Rhody is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Institute and Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center, CUNY. As Director of Digital Fellowship Programs, she leads 3 cohorts of graduate students: the GC Digital Fellows, Program Social Media Fellows, and Videography Fellows who work to extend and improve the critical use of digital technologies in research and teaching. Lisa is on the faculties of the M.A. in Liberal Studies, M.A. in Digital Humanities, M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate programs at The Graduate Center, and serves as Director of Research Projects for the CUNY Academic Commons, an academic social network designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use of technology in teaching and learning. Previously, she was Associate Director of Research Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Lisa holds a Ph.D in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research, which uses computational methods such as text mining and machine learning to explore 21st century poetry, has appeared in the Journal of Digital Humanities, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, and PMLA.

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Chelsea Lane, DPI Project Manager and Curriculum Lead

Chelsea Lane is a GCDI Postdoctoral Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY and the Project Manager and Curriculum Lead for the 2023 Digital Project Institute. She recently received her D.M.A. in Music Performance (Harp) at The Graduate Center, CUNY, having researched the historic feminine connotations of the harp in her dissertation “The Feminine Harp as Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing for Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America.” A passionate and curious educator, Chelsea runs workshops on a variety of digital tools for the GC community, as well as leads courses on music history and harp at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and Rowan University. In addition, Chelsea maintains an active performing career as a harpist, performing with Broadway ensembles, classical symphonies, new music organizations, and chamber concert series around NYC.

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Institute Faculty

Matthew K. Gold, Chelsea Lane, and Lisa M. Rhody

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Eva Sibinga

Eva Sibinga is a data viz developer and humanist. She has an MS in Data Analysis and Visualization from The CUNY Graduate Center, and a BA in English from Bowdoin College, where she also focused in Digital and Computational Studies and Visual Art. Currently, she works as a Curriculum Developer in Data Science at Codecademy, specializing in Data Visualization and working to contextualize data and the choices that surround them.

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Stephen Zweibel

Stephen Zweibel is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he supports students and faculty in developing digital projects and working with data, individually and through workshops and classes on research skills and tools. Stephen won a National Endowment for the Humanities Start-Up Grant in 2015 with DH Box, and now in 2023 has won an NEH Advancement Grant for building DHRIFT, a platform for teaching digital humanities technologies on the web.

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Di Yoong

Di (they/them) is currently a PhD candidate at The Graduate Center (CUNY). Broadly, they are interested in how identities as discourse are negotiated through nationalism, transnationalism, and diasporas. Currently, they are working on projects that considers how these relationships are mediated through online platforms. Through these projects, they are also invested in discussions on ethics in computational social science, digital humanities, and public humanities projects.

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Project Mentors

Atilio Barreda II

I am a software engineer and data analyst based in Brooklyn, New York. I have experience in various technologies such as JavaScript, and Python, and have worked on projects for non-profits, start-ups, and large companies. I am currently pursuing a master’s degree in data analysis and visualization, and I am also an adjunct lecturer at City Tech where I teach introductory courses on data science and machine learning. I have received a fellowship to work on a project related to data science education. Furthermore, I have some experience in non-profit consulting and I am fluent in Spanish.

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Robin Miller

Robin Miller (she/her/ella) is an Open Educational Technologist at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds an MS in Library and Information Science, with advanced certificates in Digital Humanities (DH) and Spatial Analysis and Design. She is a former Open Educational Resources (OER) librarian and currently works as part of the GC Digital Initiatives team supporting the digital publishing platform Manifold.

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Special Guests

Jewel Conrad, Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Jewel Conrad is an Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office where she conducts program and performance audits of federal programs across multiple issue areas. She earned her Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 2019. Previously, she worked on candidate and issue organizing campaigns for 50+1 Strategies, a political consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Jennifer S. Furlong, Director, CUNY Graduate Center Office of Career Planning and Professional Development.

Jennifer S. Furlong is Director of the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Graduate Center.

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Adam Naboa, Senior Producer, MSNBC

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Omar Nema, Product Manager, Data Visualization at Datadog

I am a technologist, currently working as a Product Manager for Data Visualization. I’ve worked at start-ups, larger companies, and freelance. Outside of work, I maintain a creative coding and teaching practice.

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Seth Schimmel, Director, Research Analytics at Digital Science

Seth Schimmel is a graduate of the GC’s Data Analysis and Visualization program.  He currently works for Digital Science, where he is a Director of Research Analytics and Support.  At Digital Science, he supports clients like NIH and NSF with custom analysis and visualization work, and supports the Dimensions web-app and API.  Prior to Digital Science, he was a Research Analyst with the Open Society Foundations Research Services team, and supported GC faculty and doctoral student research as an HRPP Assistant at the GC’s Human Research Protection Program/IRB.

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David Wickland, Information Systems Officer at the United Nations Department of Peace Operations

David is currently an Information Systems Officer with the Department of Peace Operations (DPO). Originally an electrical engineer specializing in optics and semiconductors, he moved towards more data centered work, particularly in a development context, working on evaluations related projects in Lesotho, Rwanda and Ethiopia. In 2020, David joined the DPO’s Evaluations Team to standardize best practices around impact indicators, data collection and data management as well as supporting the technical development of their Comprehensive Planning & Performance Assessment System (CPAS) platform as it continues to be mainstreamed throughout UN peacekeeping.