Kelsey Breseman is a Civic Science Fellow at EDGI. Throughout her time with EDGI, Kelsey has worked on environmental accountability, data ownership models, and intentional community. Currently, she works with EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch to bridge environmental justice-focused communities with federal environmental enforcement practices through highly accessible data science tools and reports.
Kelsey has a B.S. in Neural Engineering from Olin College, experience founding and managing tech startups, and a history of activist leadership for progressive causes. She has given dozens of conference talks and workshops at technical conferences across four continents, primarily discussing and teaching open source, open project governance, and hardware protocols for internet- connected devices. On the side, she’s currently working on a M.S. in Data Science from UT Austin.