Kyra a young alumna of Columbia College at Columbia University in the City of New York, hailing from the historic class of 2020. She studied Medicine, Literature, and Society. Dawkins is a published author and her debut novel The We and the They recently received The Firebird Award, taking first place three times for excellence in the dystopian, magical realism, and speculative fiction categories. Like her project partner, Dawkins hopes to further her education to consider how data science can be best used to further the well-being of language diversity in digital spheres and beyond.