Milagros Miceli

Milagros Miceli

Milagros Miceli is a sociologist and computer scientist, leading the research group Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics at the Weizenbaum-Institut. She is also a researcher with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Milagros’s research is focused on labor conditions and power asymmetries in outsourced data work, examining their impact on machine learning datasets. Through a diverse array of worker-centric methodologies, she actively engages communities of precarized data workers from the Global Majority in action-research projects. Her broader interests include questions of legitimacy and knowledge production in data, community-led research, labor organizing, and the intersection of critical data studies and data activism.