Dr. Theodora Dryer is a computing and technology scholar and critical policy analyst. Her work centers on the political functions of algorithms and artificial intelligence in water and natural resource management. She is Director of the Water Justice and Technology Studio, cofounder of the Critical Carbon Computing Collective, and teaches on technology and environmental justice at New York University. Dr. Dryer holds awards from the Charles Babbage Institute in Information Technology and the IEEE in History of Electrical and Computing Technology. Her work has appeared in Oxford University Press, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Osiris, SSIR, and elsewhere.