GTD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member of the Urban Studies and New Media and Digital Design programs at Fordham University. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Flourishing in Community Grantmaker Program (EPA Region 2) and a Co-PI on the Initiative on Migrants, Migration, and Human Dignity. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology with a doctoral certification in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Donovan’s research explores the mutual shaping of people, place, and proprietary media, and how to reorient such shaping toward more just and meaningful publics. He is the author of Canaries in the Data Mine: Understanding the Proprietary Design of Youth Environments, co-chair of the Mapping (In)Justice Symposium, and a founder of the OpenCUNY Academic Medium.