Zara Rahman

Zara Rahman is a British-Bangladeshi writer and researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Her book, Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our Identities was published in October 2023 by 404 Ink. Over the past 12 years, her work has focused on supporting the responsible use of data and technology in social justice advocacy. She has held fellowships with the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Data & Society. She serves on the Board of Saheli, a UK-based non-profit providing support and refuge to women of colour fleeing domestic abuse, and on the Advisory Board of A People’s Guide to Tech.

Since 2022 she has worked as a freelance research and strategy consultant within civil society on technology, movement building and social justice, and she is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Cornell University. She is currently exploring what it looks like to move from a place of solidarity with other social justice movements when it comes to technology and data.