Dr. Theodora Dryer is a writer, historian, and critical policy analyst. Her work centers on histories of data and technology in the climate crisis and the political functions of algorithms and predictive analytics in water and natural resource management. She is Director of the Water Justice and Technology Project www.waterjustice-tech.org, 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 Osiris, Oxford University Press, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Branch Magazine, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Logic Magazine, and elsewhere.