About

Tanvi is a design technologist operating at the intersection of data, aesthetics, & the humanities.

She works as a is a design engineer at Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, BIPOC Design History and is a co-author of Data by Design: A History in Five Charts (MIT Press, 2026). She is also a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute. Previously, she worked at Pentagram, Public Policy Lab, and Spotify. She is based in Brooklyn with her two cats — Yuchi and Bubbles.

Recent Engagements

Writing ↓

Arcade: Reflections on the Digital Humanities

Stanford Humanities Center • 2025

Contributing Author

Stamps from Ghana

People's Graphic Design Archive • 2024

Guest Curator

Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias

Princeton Architectural Press • 2021

Contributing Author

Speaking ↓

The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Modern Data Visualization

Outlier • 2025

co-presented with Lauren Klein

Keynote

Listening to (Digital) Images: A Black Sound Studies Approach to Alt-Text

DH • 2024

co-presented with Margy Adams, Shiyao Li, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein

Talk

Margins of Violence: Navigating Resistance in Data Visualization

AIGA National Conference • 2024

Talk

Open Source Art Contributor's Conference

University of Denver • 2023

Artist Talk

The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Data Viz

Yale University Digital Humanities Lab • 2023

co-presented with Lauren Klein

Talk

Teaching ↓

Graduate Studio: Technology A

Pratt Institute • Fall 2025

Class

Black Design in America

CalArts Extended Studies • Fall 2025

co-taught with Silas Munro & Kriss Nuzzi from BIPOC Design History

Class

Thesis I

Pratt Institute • Fall 2025

Guest Critic

Typography III

RISD • Fall 2025

Guest Lecture

AMST 201: Introduction to American Studies

Emory University • Spring 2024

Guest Lecture

The College of Arts, Media and Design

Northeastern University • 2023

Guest Lecture

MAT in Art Education

MICA • 2023

Guest Lecture

Colophon

Typographic

This website is typeset in Space Grotesk by Florian Karsten.

Technical

This website is built using Next.js, an open-source web framework to help build React-based applications. All styles have been set up using Tailwind.