Aashka Dave is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia. She completed her PhD in information and library science at UNC Chapel Hill, where she is an affiliate at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life.  

Dave’s work puts into conversation issues of climate risk, information ecosystems, and human-centered design. As a postdoctoral fellow, she plans to expand her dissertation work to write a book exploring the data-fied ways that climate risk is priced into our lives, how that risk is politicized, and how it might be more effectively communicated to the public.  

Dave has previously worked as a Design Thinking and Innovation Fellow for Innovate Carolina; a media researcher at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Kennedy School; and on digital projects at The Associated Press. She holds an M.S. in comparative media studies from MIT, and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Romance languages from the University of Georgia.