# danah boyd > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. **danah boyd** (she writes her name in lowercase) is a scholar of technology and society and the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. She founded the research institute Data & Society in 2013 and spent more than a decade as a researcher at Microsoft Research. Her 2026 book *[[Data Are Made, Not Found]]* is an inside account of the [[Census Bureau]] during the [[2020 Census]]. It introduced [[Jenga Politics]], her name for the slow weakening of the [[Administrative State]] by both parties. Earlier she helped develop the idea of the [[Data Void]] and wrote *It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens* (2014).