Sara M. Watson

Sara M. Watson is a technology critic and industry analyst. Her work aims to offer embodied, practical, and accessible tools and framings for examining our relationship to technologies, culture, and power. Her intersectional career covering data, privacy, and tech policy bridges industry, policy, and academia. She is lead curator and editorial director of A People’s History of Tech.

She has been a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where her work on personal data and privacy raised awareness of data’s role in the digital economy. As a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, her research on the media’s evolving coverage of technology advocated for more constructive technology criticism. Sara has also covered emerging tech trends as a principal industry analyst at Forrester, Insider Intelligence, and the Gartner Research Board. Her writing appears in The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, Slate, Motherboard, and other publications, and her work has been cited in the Financial Times and The New Yorker. She presents at technology conferences around the globe.