Catherine Wieczorek is a designer and researcher pursuing a PhD in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing. Her research examines how time is organized through public and technical infrastructures, tracing how historically layered temporal arrangements shape governance, care, and access in everyday life. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and feminist scholarship, she uses design ethnography to analyze how temporal demands are produced, allocated, and unevenly distributed through sociotechnical systems, and to explore how more accountable relationships between time, technology, and public institutions might be imagined. She has worked across domains including health, water conservation, agriculture, public libraries, and creative practices of AI use/ non-use. In addition to this research, she occasionally participates in group exhibitions, produces books, prints, and zines, and promotes alternative research outcomes to communicate scholarship to broader audiences.

Previously, Catherine worked at public health research centers and consultancies including the D-Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Flip Labs, and the Design Lab at the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago. Before moving into research-focused work, she started out as a graphic designer in Chicago. She holds a M.S. in Informatics from Penn State University, MDes from the IIT Institute of Design, and B.A. in Visual Communication from Loyola University Chicago.