Aiha Nguyen leads the Labor Futures Initiative at Data & Society. The initiative strives to better understand emergent disruptions in the labor force as a result of data-centric technological development and to create new frames for understanding these disruptions through evidence-based research and collaboration. Aiha's recent publications include The Constant Boss: Work Under Digital Surveillance and The Digital Doorstep: How Customers Use Doorbell Cameras to Manage Delivery Workers.
Prior to joining Data & Society, she worked to raise job standards for retail, airport, and other service workers, and addressed issues of food access, safety and security, and local governance at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Aiha has a masters in Urban Planning from UCLA. Her interests lie at the intersection of labor, technology, and urban studies. Through these lines of inquiry, she hopes her work contributes to shifting the debate towards worker-centered analysis and solutions.