Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Dr Isabelle Zaugg (Participant)

Dr. Zaugg is Program Manager at Columbia's Data Science Institute, overseeing collaborative and interdisciplinary data science education programs, including APHREA-DST. Dr. Zaugg's role in this project draws on her years of experience in project development, research, and education leadership in Eastern Africa, including two Fulbright Fellowships to Ethiopia, hosted by AAU. Dr. Zaugg is also part of the Collaboratory at Columbia leadership team, leading efforts to assess the program's outcomes and impacts.  The Collaboratory supports the development of innovative, interdisciplinary curricula that embed data science into more traditional domains or the reverse, embed business, policy, cultural, and ethical topics into data science curricula.  Named a Collaboratory Fellow in 2018, Dr. Zaugg develops and teaches cross-disciplinary courses focused on building improved digital supports for under-served languages, and exploring the multi-faceted topic of data ethics.  Dr. Zaugg holds an Adjunct Lectureship at Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, where she was a Mellon-Sawyer Postdoc Fellow from 2017-2019. Dr. Zaugg has been a member of the DSI Data Science Education Working Group since 2020, where she helped launch DSI's Annual Best Data Science Student Course Project Competition in 2021. Dr. Zaugg is a communication scholar and filmmaker focused on language, culture, and tech justice.  Dr. Zaugg holds a PhD in Communication, an MA in Film, and a BA in Art Semiotics.