Bouskill is a senior researcher at Meta where she works in Meta’s Reliability Engineering organization. An anthropologist by training, Bouskill has worked around the world on a range of issues related to technology, risk & security, and public health. She is an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Bouskill holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Emory University.

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What's an Anthropologist doing in Meta's Infrastructure?

As an anthropologist in Meta’s Infrastructure, my job is to integrate culture to applied systems analysis and to design and conduct interventions to effect positive change. This talk explores how we used anthropological research to help Meta shift from “Move Fast and Break Things” to “Move Fast with Stable Infrastructure.” I present 2 interventions where we used culture and behavioral “nudges” to drive change from the bottom up and top down. The aim is to provide actionable guidance on how engineering orgs can adopt social sciences as they scale.

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