As a research affiliate at the Data + Feminism Lab at MIT, I collaborate with the participatory action research project “Data Against Feminicide,” which aims to (1) understand the data-gathering practices and technological challenges faced by activists who monitor feminicides and other forms of gender-related violence, particularly in the Americas, and (2) work with activists to co-design and develop digital tools that facilitate their monitoring labor. Through this work, our team has co-developed a data highlighter browser extension and an email alert system that uses machine learning to identify news articles that are highly likely to concern a feminicide. Both tools are freely accessible in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Supporting materials and tutorials can be accessed here.
I contribute to the project’s qualitative research and collaborative work with activists, including coordinating our work in Brazil alongside Isadora Cruxên.
Publications related to the project that I led or contributed to:
- Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (ed.). 2025. Estudios Feministas de Seguridad desde América Latina y el Caribe. Florianópolis: UFSC.
- Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, Lauren Klein, e Catherine D’Ignazio. 2024. “Missing Data.” Em Keywords of the Datafied State, editado por R. Singh, J. Burrell, e P. Davison. Data & Society.
- Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, Catherine D’Ignazio, Cecilia França, Isadora Cruxên, Maria Eunice X. Kalil, Rose Marques, Silvana Mariano, Telia Negrão, e Thais Pereira Siqueira. 2023. “Tecnologia e Ativistas de Dados Contra o Feminicídio.” Portal Catarinas, 30 de agosto.
- Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. 2022. “‘Contando Feminicídio’: Um Glossário Feminista para Ativistas de Dados.” Data + Feminism Lab, MIT, 23 de novembro.
- Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, Isadora Cruxên, Radhika Radhakrishnan, e Catherine D’Ignazio. Challenging (in)security: Missing Data and Counterdata Production on Feminicides in the Americas. Em Priscyll Anctil, “Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: Pushing the Fronteras.” Capítulo de livro, forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan in the “Global Security” series.
- Cruxên, Isadora, Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, e Catherine D’Ignazio. 2023. “Data Activism Against Feminicide: Co-Designing Digital Tools to Monitor Gender-Related Violence Across the Americas.” School of Business and Management – Queen Mary University of London.
- Cruxên, Isadora, Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, Lauren F. Klein, e Catherine D’Ignazio. 2024. “Dados Ausentes e Contradados.” Em Informe Feminicídios Brasil 2023: Monitor de Feminicídios no Brasil, editado por Silvana Mariano. Londrina: Editora dos Autores.
Leadership: Isadora Cruxên, Catherine D’Ignazio, Silvana Fumega, and Helena Suárez Val / Feminicidio Uruguay.
Partners: Rahul Bhargava, MediaCloud, The Latin American Initiative for Open Data (ILDA), Jimena Acosta, Red Interamericana Anti-femicidio
Collaborators: Feminicidio Uruguay, Sovereign Bodies Institute – SBI, African American Policy Forum, Women Count USA, Black Femicide US, Observatorio Nacional MuMaLá, Mujeres de Negro Rosario, Néias – Observatório de Feminicídios Londrina, Fórum Cearense de Mulheres – FCM, Lupa Feminista contra o Feminicídio – Coletivo Feminino Plural, Laboratório de Estudos de Feminicídios – LESFEM, Grupo de Trabalho sobre Feminicídio na Bahia – GT FEM.
Alessandra Jungs de Almeida 