Marisol Yake (she / they) is the Data Analyst for the Collections and Data Analysis (CADA) program working alongside Mountain Museum Management (MMM), designing analytics processes to best support museum staff in monitoring and intervening on their collections workflows, making space to find opportunities for increased data quality via quality-of-life changes to data work, and lowering their total overhead (staff and storage) costs.
A senior-year undergraduate student in Information Science with a minor in Philsophy, focusing on the philosophy of science. While studying Information Science at CU Boulder, I have been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work alongside the caring folks in the Philanthropics Informatics Research Lab (PIRL) as a research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Amy Voida and direct mentorship of Dr. Shiva Darian, contributing to a research manuscript exploring how labor unions use data and information communication technologies (ICTs) through the lenses of Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
I always strive for my work to have lasting, mutual benefits for all of our relations. My drive for learning and research has always been fueled by the idea that everything I’ve learned could be something that can go on to tangibly benefit peoples collectively.
People before profits every time.
People that inspire my work:
- Amy Voida, PhD.
- Shiva Darian, PhD.
- Lynn Dombrowski, PhD.
- Vera Khovanskaya, PhD.
- Countless other equally generous and brilliant people.
Books that inspire my work:
- Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott
- Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Discipline & Punish - Michel Foucault
- We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour
- Taming Chance - Ian Hacking
- Against Method - Paul Feyerabend
- Capital - Karl Marx
- Back From the Crocodile’s Belly - Center for Babaylan Studies