About

Monika Sengul-Jones (she/they), PhD, is an expert in technology, culture, and society. She is the Director of Strategy & Operations of Society + Technology at UW, hosted in the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington, which supports the Science, Technology, and Society Studies community, and teaches in the Global Innovation Exchange program, which is a joint endeavor in business and engineering. Monika has a doctorate in Communication and Science Studies, and in 2020 she was honored with the Dean’s Fellowship Prize for Humanistic Studies for her graduate research; she also holds an MA in Gender Studies, as an Ambassadorial Scholar of Goodwill, supported by the Rotary Foundation International.

As an instructor and teaching artist, Sengul-Jones has taught at the University of Washington, UC San Diego, Central European University, Hugo House in Seattle, and Write Doe Bay. Across her work, she encourages students to take risks by listening, following ideas, and naming the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Much of her career work has been collaborative and falls at the intersection of public scholarship, education, and internet research. She designed and co-led an Art+Feminism qualitative research project on reliable sources and marginalized communities on Wikipedia. The report, Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedia, was published in June 2021. In 2017-18, Sengul-Jones was the OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence for the Wikipedia+Libraries: Better Together project, where she designed and delivered courses and webinars for U.S. public library staff and led the promotions campaign. Her work has been supported by and conducted with Art+Feminism, Knight Foundation, OCLC, Network of National Libraries of Medicine, WikiCred, Wiki Edu, and Wikimedia Foundation.

As a creative writer and journalist, Sengul-Jones contributes to the European Journalism Centre’s Data Journalism.com, and her creative writing has been published in West Trade Review, Afar, and Easy Jet Magazine. From 2014-16, Sengul-Jones was a co-managing editor and web developer for Catalyst, a peer-reviewed feminist technoscience journal.

Her award-winning writing has been described as “moving” and “emotionally exciting.” She has studied creative writing at the University of Washington, with Sabrina Orah Mark, and Amanda Castleman. She was awarded a travel writing workshop scholarship, and in 2020, Sengul-Jones funded a scholarship with Castleman’s women-focused writing program Write Like A Honey Badger.

She is at work on a debut novel.