Lindsay Poirier is a cultural anthropologist of data advocacy, governance and infrastructure. Interlacing methods in cultural analysis and exploratory data analysis, Poirier critically examines how meaning gets made from data—by whom, for whom, under what conditions and toward what ends. Her work is informed by prior work in critical data studies, information studies, the digital humanities and data science. Poirier has represented the empirical humanities in international efforts to advance interdisciplinary data sharing and collaborates as a hacker and data wrangler on a number of community-engaged and justice-focused data science projects.