{"id":1443,"date":"2018-08-15T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T00:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/ellen-kaufman-alum-profile\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:24:53","slug":"ellen-kaufman-alum-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/2025-02-19_cct\/ellen-kaufman-alum-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Kaufman, CCT 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pull-md-left m-r-1 m-b-1\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2019\/09\/ellen_kaufman2.jpeg\" alt=\"Jameson Spivack\" width=\"180\" height=\"269\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem;\"><strong>Undergraduate institution and major:<\/strong>&nbsp;Kenyon College, English Literature &amp; Music<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of focus in CCT:<\/strong>&nbsp;Tech Ethics, Sextech, Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you do before CCT?&nbsp;<\/strong>After graduating from college in 2013, I worked in Berlin, Germany for three years\u2014first as an au pair,&nbsp;then as an editor, copywriter and subtitler for a text and translation firm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What activities did you participate in during CCT?&nbsp;<\/strong>I was the Managing Editor of&nbsp;gnovis, CCT\u2019s peer-edited academic journal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose CCT?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>During my final semester of college, I became obsessed with digital copyright law and tech ethics. I explored applying to law school, but&nbsp;ultimately contended that it wasn&#8217;t the right fit for my specific research interests. I ended up haphazardly googling keywords for the&nbsp;graduate program I was looking for \u2014 and was pretty sure didn\u2019t exist \u2014 and was stunned to discover an M.A. program that aligned exactly&nbsp;with my interdisciplinary interests \u2014 ethics, tech policy, critical theory, and cultural studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What surprised you about CCT?&nbsp;<\/strong>How fast two years goes by! While I loved the classes I took, the program length requires you to be selective and strategic about your&nbsp;course load.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you doing now? <\/strong>I\u2019m continuing to work on my Ph.D. in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington and recently completed my&nbsp;Ph.D. minor in Human Sexuality at the Kinsey Institute, one of the foremost research institutions for sex, gender and&nbsp;reproduction. 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