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 and Director of CRADL, Crypto Research and Design Lab. Areas of focus in her work: Web3, inclusive design, data literacy, internet access, personhood, and anonymity.

She writes and speaks extensively about the future of our personal data. Her work has been featured in Quartz, New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Techcrunch, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Slate, Wired, The Guardian and Fast Company. 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 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 start-ups and nonprofits that are working at the intersection community and technology. 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. Tricia's life philosophy is that you have to go to the edge to discover the center. Follow her on twitter or instagram @triciawang. www.triciawang.com