Joanne Cheung is a Lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
She is currently writing a book on community land trusts and climate change. Her work focuses on the political economy of digital infrastructure: how digital “public space" becomes financialized, how data support or undermine community ownership and governance of land, and how social movements use technology to organize transnationally. She previously served as a Director at the global design firm IDEO, leading its Racial Justice Impact Fund and a portfolio of public interest design projects with partners including Project Drawdown, City of San José Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation, Knight Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in Wallpaper, Wired, Fast Company, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives and works in Berkeley, California.
