Catherine Blake is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with affiliate appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Medical Information Science. At the iSchool, she serves as associate director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship and is an active member of the Socio-technical Data Analytics group.

Dr. Cabral Bigman’s research focuses on communication about risk and inequality. She is particularly interested in the influence that messages about comparative risk and inequality have on health and communication-related behavior.

Mr. Ajay Singh PhD is a postdoctoral research associate at the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. He received his PhD in 2022 from the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research interests are in policing, technology, and surveillance. Singh’s current work examines the influence of technology in policing operations and in community interactions with law enforcement. He is a mixed-methods scholar, who uses archival research, interviews, observations, and structured event data in his research.

Peter F. Nardulli is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the founding Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, and the editor of a book series with the University of Illinois Press: Democracy, Free Enterprise and the Rule of Law. He has been on the faculty at UIUC since 1974 and served as department head in Political Science from 1992 until 2006.