Angela Okune: Brief Bio

Angela Okune (Twitter | Web) is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Irvine. She studies data sharing cultures and infrastructures of qualitative research groups working in and on Kenya in order to explore broader questions of equity, knowledge production and socio-economic development in Africa. Angela is a recipient of a Wenner-Gren fieldwork grant and 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She is a 2018 Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society and Policy. From 2010 – 2015, as co-founder of the research department at iHub, Nairobi’s innovation hub for the tech community, Angela provided strategic guidance for the growth of tech research in Kenya.