Chelsea Barabas

Chelsea Barabas is a research scientist at MIT, where she examines the spread of algorithmic decision making tools in the US criminal justice system. Formerly, she was the Head of Social Innovation at the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative. Barabas completed graduate work at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies Program and at the Center for Civic Media in the Media Lab. Alongside the MIT community, she has explored a wide range of issues related to the use of emerging technologies to serve the public good — everything from citizen data collection in Brazil to conservation drones in Kenya and ed-tech workshops in Peru.