Barbara Kiviat

Barbara Kiviat

Barbara   Kiviat

Barbara Kiviat is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy. Her research sits at the intersection of economic sociology, stratification, and public policy. Her dissertation explores the moral underpinnings of the big data economy, asking what we must believe to be morally at ease with using information about a person's past to algorithmically predict future behavior and allocate resources accordingly. Kiviat is a doctoral fellow in the Kennedy School's Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, and her research has been supported by the Center for American Political Studies and the Tobin Project. She holds a BA in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, an MA in business journalism from Columbia University, and an MPA from New York University, where she was a David Bohnett Public Service Fellow in New York City's Office of the Mayor. Previously, Kiviat was a staff writer at Time magazine and also wrote for other outlets such as Fortune, Money, The Miami Herald, The Arizona Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reuters, and TheAtlantic.com.

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