Meet Yun Feng, an anthropologist studying “Taobao villages” across rural China. Yun is a summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow, working in the MnDRIVE categories of robotics and global food.

Meet Elizabeth Calhoun, a geographer working with our unhoused neighbors in Minneapolis. Elizabeth is a summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow, working in the MnDRIVE category of the environment.

Meet Ebony Adedayo, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota in Curriculum and Instruction, and the founder of the Aya Collective, a space that centers the expertise and experience of Black women. She is a member of the short-term fellows cohort focused on The Mission of the Land Grant/Land Grab University.

Meet Nicholas Bauch, a Summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow. Nicholas is an artist and geographer working on a dataset comprised of the circumference outline shapes of all the lakes in Minnesota. From there, he will manipulate this data into an art installation.