Can Digital Innovation Advance Social Equity for Marginalized Groups?

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Associate Professor, Science Technology and International Affairs, School of Foreign Service

Georgetown University

I am currently an Associate Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University and was previously a Fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard University. I consulted for the Gates Foundation and Open Society Foundation. Previously, I worked as an associate researcher at the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research, India. In my prior life, I was a software developer at Microsoft. I have a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Clemson University, Master’s degree in Economics from Cleveland State University, and Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Management from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.

Kriti Kapila

Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. Lecturer in Anthropology and Law, King's College London Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (2022-24)

Kriti Kapila is Member at the Institute of Advanced Studies (2023-24). She is a social anthropologist based at King's College London and the author of Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India (2022). She is currently completing a manuscript on historical genetics and genomic medicine in India, and her new research focuses on digital state-making.