Danielle Wood

Professor Danielle Wood serves as an assistant professor in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and serves as the faculty advisor for students majoring, minoring, or concentrating in African and African Diaspora Studies at MIT. As the first Black woman faculty member in the Media Lab, Prof. Wood combines a passion for space engineering, sustainability, and policy as she leads student researchers and professional staff on the mission of “advancing justice in Earth’s complex systems using designs enabled by space.” Her projects combine social justice and space engineering by expanding the “benefits that people on earth receive from space technology such as satellite earth observation, communication, positioning and microgravity research.” Taken together with her teaching and community-based collaboration in Benin, Brazil, Ghana, and Indonesia, she is helping students harness their growing expertise and design space-based systems drawing from engineering, design, arts, humanities, and social sciences to address systemic injustice and inequity across society.

Connect with Danielle via email at drwood@mit.edu.