Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear PhD, PhD
Northern Cheyenne and Chicana
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Position(s):
Director of the Data Warriors Lab
Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at the University of California Los Angeles
Dr. Desi Small-Rodriguez is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and Chicana. She is the Executive Director of the Data Warriors Lab, a mobile Indigenous data science laboratory that partners with tribal nations and Indigenous communities to rebuild data for strong self-determined Indigenous futures. She co-founded the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and is a founding member of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. Dr. Desi is also an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a social demographer and Indigenous statistician, her research and praxis center on disrupting settler colonial systems and rebuilding data by Indigenous Peoples for Indigenous Peoples.
Publication(s):
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649220981589
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=lAi4MUsAAAAJ&citation_for_view=lAi4MUsAAAAJ:zYLM7Y9cAGgC
Email: desi@datawarriorslab.org