Michelle Venetucci is an economic anthropologist with a focus on the political economy of emerging technologies in Silicon Valley. Her work explores how the tech workforce’s middle class domestic expectation of stability helps reproduce the valley’s “high risk” speculative economic practices, with implications for how new technologies are developed. She is currently a PhD candidate in the anthropology department at Yale University and a policy fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
Photo: Eichler homes in the heart of Silicon Valley, taken during fieldwork in 2023.