Adrienne Baer

Adrienne Baer (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations within Management Science and Engineering. She investigates healthcare settings, exploring how technology transforms the ways in which we take care of one another. In one stream of research, she studies how technologies shape collaboration, looking at the impact of platforms that structure coordinated work for remote care professionals. In another, she studies how collaboration shapes technologies, examining interdisciplinary research groups interfacing with communities to inform the aspirationally ethical creation of health data sets. Adrienne is a designer who is passionate about health equity, community-engaged research, and housing-first approaches. She frequently takes on volunteer design projects, and many of her favorites are with The Better Lab at UCSF, including designing a mobile application to help communication between victims of violence and their case managers, composing a report with the Emergency Design Collective on the intersection of race, homelessness, and Covid-19 to inform Kaiser Permanente’s policies, and creating a curriculum teaching user experience design to clients of the non-profit Code Tenderloin. She can often be found facilitating design workshops! Adrienne received her BS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland and her Master’s of Engineering: Design Impact from Stanford.