Nadia Eghbal

Nadia Asparouhova is a writer and researcher who explores how the internet enables individual creators. From 2015 to 2019, she focused on the production of open-source software, working independently and at GitHub to improve the open-source developer experience. She is the author of Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure, published by the Ford Foundation, where she argued that open-source code is a form of public infrastructure that requires maintenance.

Nadia Eghbal is a former digital HKS fellow. She explores how we can better support open-source infrastructure, highlighting current gaps in funding and knowledge. She published "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure" with support from the Ford Foundation. In this report, Nadia Eghbal unpacks the unique challenges facing digital infrastructure and how we might work together to address them. 

Nadia tends to get excited about infrastructure, governance, and the economics of the internet. She often writes about these dynamics in software. Protocol Labs employ her, a research, development, and deployment institution for improving Internet technology. She is based in San Francisco.