Mary L. GrayThe Katherine Graham Howard A'1913, C'1917 Keynote Address
Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University鈥檚 Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University.
Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people鈥檚 everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on several boards, including Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and the California Governor鈥檚 Council of Economic Advisors, in addition to chairing the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program鈥攖he only federally registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.







