Christina Dacanay

Resident Researcher

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Christina Dacanay work is focused around online communities and how to knit healthy social fabric on the web. Her master's thesis was an investigation into the redpilled and Q Anon communities over the course of the 2020 election. She currently stewards the ml5.js project, an educational platform for “friendly machine learning for the web”. 

Previously, she worked as a product designer at Codecademy, graphic designer Penguin Random House, and educator at the Society of Illustrators and the Walters Museum of Art. She holds a BFA illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a MPS from the NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).