== Early life and education ==
Julia Angwin was born in Champaign, Illinois, to university professor parents who moved to Silicon Valley in 1974 to work in the emerging personal computer industry. She grew up in Palo Alto, where she learned to code in the 5th grade.<ref name="MySpace Odyssey">{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjr.org/critical_eye/myspace_odyssey.php |title=MySpace Odyssey |author=James Marcus |date=March 18, 2009 |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> During summers, she worked at the Hewlett-Packard Demo Center in Cupertino.<ref name="What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 1: Former editor-in-chief Julia Angwin on Recode Decode">{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/4/26/18517875/julia-angwin-markup-sue-gardner-jeff-larson-craig-newmark-facebook-kara-swisher-decode-podcast |title=What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 1: Former editor-in-chief Julia Angwin on Recode Decode |author=Eric Johnson|date=April 26, 2019 |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> Angwin graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992 with a B.A. in mathematics.<ref name="Bill Moyers">{{cite web |url=https://billmoyers.com/guest/julia-angwin/ |author=[[Bill Moyers]] |title=Julia Angwin Investigative Journalist |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> She was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in 1998.<ref name="New Knight-Bagehot director Narisetti talks about its changes">{{cite web |url=https://talkingbiznews.com/we-talk-biz-news/new-knight-bagehot-director-narisetti-talks-about-its-changes/ |author=[[Chris Roush]] |title= New Knight-Bagehot director Narisetti talks about its changes |date=October 2, 2018 |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> She then completed her MBA at Columbia University with a concentration in accounting in 1999.<ref name="MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow">{{cite web |url=https://www.media.mit.edu/people/jangwin/overview/ |title=Director's Fellow |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref>
== Early life and education ==
Julia Angwin was born in Champaign, Illinois, to university professor parents who moved to Silicon Valley in 1974 to work in the emerging personal computer industry. She grew up in Palo Alto, where she learned to code in the 5th grade.<ref name="MySpace Odyssey">{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjr.org/critical_eye/myspace_odyssey.php |title=MySpace Odyssey |author=James Marcus |date=March 18, 2009 |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> During summers, she worked at the Hewlett-Packard Demo Center in Cupertino.<ref name="What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 1: Former editor-in-chief Julia Angwin on Recode Decode">{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/4/26/18517875/julia-angwin-markup-sue-gardner-jeff-larson-craig-newmark-facebook-kara-swisher-decode-podcast |title=What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 1: Former editor-in-chief Julia Angwin on Recode Decode |author=Eric Johnson|date=April 26, 2019 |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> Angwin graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992 with a B.A. in mathematics.<ref name="Bill Moyers">{{cite web |url=https://billmoyers.com/guest/julia-angwin/ |author=[[Bill Moyers]] |title=Julia Angwin Investigative Journalist |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> She was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in 1998.<ref name="New Knight-Bagehot director Narisetti talks about its changes">{{cite web |url=https://talkingbiznews.com/we-talk-biz-news/new-knight-bagehot-director-narisetti-talks-about-its-changes/ |author=[[Chris Roush]] |title= New Knight-Bagehot director Narisetti talks about its changes |date=October 2, 2018 |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> She then completed her MBA at Columbia University with a concentration in accounting in 1999.<ref name="MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow">{{cite web |url=https://www.media.mit.edu/people/jangwin/overview/ |title=Director's Fellow |access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref>