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Shiva Darian holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an HCI researcher studying nonprofits and their clients as end users of technology applying qualitative and data science methods for formative requirements gathering for system design. Her research areas include the quantification of people, politics of data, digital activism, citizen data science, and algorithmic folk theories. Dr. Darian’s current research investigates how organizations and their clients consider and use data and information, especially in politicized topics. At NMSU, she is researching how asylum seekers and organizations consider, navigate, and use information technology at the border. She received her MS in information science from CU Boulder and holds undergraduate degrees in philosophy and international politics from Penn State University. She has a background working with marginalized communities in the nonprofit sector as a refugee caseworker and union organizer.