Spotlight: Lauren Maffeo

Author of Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up

Margaret Eldridge
The Pragmatic Programmers
2 min readFeb 3, 2023

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Once a month or so we talk with a PragProg author and host an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Devtalk forums. This month on DevTalk the spotlight is on Lauren Maffeo.

🔦 Spotlight page

Lauren Maffeo is an award-winning designer and analyst who currently works as a service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and an area editor for Data and Policy, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press.

Lauren has written for Harvard Data Science Review, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among other publications. Lauren is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Speakers Program, and a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, where she helps judge the Webby Awards.

Be sure to visit the book page on DevTalk, where you will find a promo code that saves you 35 percent:

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Cover for book by Lauren Maffeo: Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up featuring people standing is a large room with a re-toned grid of light across the walls
Cover for Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up by Lauren Maffeo

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