Dawn
Graham

Data Scientist | Educator | Advocate

Boston, MA
Phone / 859.268.1051
Resume / Download .PDF

Previously

Seeking

Balance and delight / Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Others interested in data ethics, equity, and emergent strategy / Aug 2019 - Sep 2024
Full-time opportunities in data science or analytics / Mar - May 2019

Doing

Completing the Institute for Radical Permission course / Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
Balancing work and graduate school with the rest of life / Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
Working on the Code for Boston Clean Slate Project / Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Noticing things / Feb 2020
Working on the Code for Boston Safe Drinking Water Project / Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Daily scraping to collect longitudinal data for my Active Timebanks project / Jan - Jun 2019

Learning

Advanced Mold Making, Harvard Ceramics / Sep - Nov 2025
Molds and Multiples, Harvard Ceramics / June - July 2025
Creating with Plant Colors: Anthotypes and Eco-Prints, Garden in the Woods / July 2025
Wompy Weaving with Invasive Bittersweet, Just Roots / Sep 2024
Making a Moon Jar, Commonwealth Clayworks / Sep 2024
Ceramics 1, Boston University / July - Aug 2024
Dyeing & Printing with Botanicals, The Eliot School / July 2023
Wild and Foraged Foods, Boston University / May - June 2023
Maximum Likelihood Estimation II & Causal Inference for the Social Sciences, ICPSR / July - Aug 2022
Web Analytics and Mining, Boston University / May - Aug 2022
Data Analysis and Visualization with R, Boston University / Jan - May 2022
Foundations of Analytics with R, Boston University / Sep - Dec 2021
Software Engineering, Boston University / May - Aug 2021
Analysis of Algorithms & Operating Systems, Boston University / Jan - May 2021
Computer Language Theory, Boston University / Sep - Dec 2020
Data Mining, Boston University / May - Aug 2020
Designing and Implementing a Data Warehouse, Boston University / Mar - May 2020
Advanced Database Management, Boston University / Jan - Mar 2020
Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs
Database Design and Implementation for Business, Boston University / Sep - Dec 2019
Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics
Navigating Misinformation: How to identify and verify what you see on the web
Open Data Science Conference East, Boston, MA

Reading

2026

Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

You Need a Manifesto by Charlotte Burgess-Auburn

Jan 2026

2025

100 Quotes by Charles Eames

Dec 2025

Summer Island by Kristin Hannah

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Nov 2025

Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

Oct 2025

If They Come in the Morning... edited by Angela Y. Davis

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Sep 2025

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben

Animated Earth by Daniel Statnekov

Aug 2025

Four Squares by Bobby Finger

July 2025

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

June 2025

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

May 2025

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Apr 2025

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Mar 2025

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

Feb 2025

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

All Fours by Miranda July

Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher

Jan 2025

2024

The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Range by David Epstein

Dec 2024

The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond

Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

Nov 2024

Colored Television by Danzy Senna

Oct 2024

Anite de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Sep 2024

Maame by Jessica George

Aug 2024

How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chödrön

Feeling Good by David D. Burns

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park

Improv Wisdom by Patricia Ryan Madson

June 2024

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

May 2024

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Apr 2024

47th Publication Design Annual by Society of Publication Designers

Mar 2024

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Say What You Mean by Oren Jay Sofer

Feb 2024

Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Jan 2024

2023

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

Korean Buncheong Ceramics by Soyoung Lee

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Dec 2023

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Saving Time by Jenny Odell

Korean Ceramics by Robert Koehler

All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nov 2023

The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Oct 2023

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Sep 2023

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

White Women Cry and Call Me Angry by Yanique Redwood

Aug 2023

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Make Ink by Jason Logan

The Joy of Foraging by Gary Lincoff

July 2023

Urban Foraging by David Craft

June 2023

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown

May 2023

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hershey

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Apr 2023

David Ruggles by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

The Art of Papercraft by Maggie Smith

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

The Art of Papercraft by Helen Hiebert

You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh

Mar 2023

There There by Tommy Orange

Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Feb 2023

The Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings by Valerie Trouet

Daily Rituals: How Artist Work by Mason Currey

Jan 2023

2022

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert

Keep Going by Austin Kleon

Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe

Dec 2022

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

¡Hola Papi! by John Paul Brammer

Nov 2022

Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson

Teenager by Bud Smith

Healing SIBO by Shivan Sarna

Oct 2022

Low-FODMAP and Vegan by Jo Stepaniak

A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer

Aug 2022

The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett

June 2022

Bojagi: Design and techniques in Korean textile art by Sara Cook

May 2022

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Lost Boy by Christina Henry

Apr 2022

Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Logic Issue 15: Beacons

Mar 2022

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning by George Lakey

Feb 2022

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Grievers by adrienne maree brown

Jan 2022

2021

Especially Now by Jonas Cannon

We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

Holding Change by adrienne maree brown

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Dec 2021

Verity by Colleen Hoover

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami

Nov 2021

Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hell Of A Book by Jason Mott

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

Oct 2021

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Aug 2021

The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels

Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi

July 2021

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

Tenth of December by George Saunders

June 2021

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Go Home! edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

May 2021

Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, and Peter B. Galvin

The Greatest Most Traveling Circus! by Jonas Cannon

The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi

The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang

Apr 2021

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Tales of a Korean Grandmother by Frances Carpenter

The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz

Educated by Tara Westover

Mar 2021

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Feb 2021

Luster by Raven Leilani

Jan 2021

2020

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Deer and the Woodcutter: A Korean Folktale by Kim So-Un

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata by Peter Linz

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige

Dec 2020

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

Nov 2020

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) by David Sedaris

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Oct 2020

Dot Journaling by Rachel Wilkerson Miller

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Sep 2020

Ideas Arrangements Effects: Systems Design and Social Justice by Design Studio for Social Intervention

Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec

Aug 2020

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang

July 2020

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley

The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll

June 2020

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown (again)

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

May 2020

If You Find This Letter by Hannah Brencher

Feb 2020

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara

The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

Jan 2020

2019

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Dec 2019

Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management by Carlos Coronel & Steven Morris

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard

Style of Attack Report by Metropolarity

My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory by Roger Miret

Nov 2019

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Aug 2019

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark

May 2019

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

Feb 2019

Last updated 2/1/26. See my current activities.