Janna Z. Huang (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of California – Berkeley. Her research explores organizational and technological change in response to climate change. Her three-paper dissertation examines the political economy of climate governance, how corporate organizational structures emerge around the disclosure of climate information, and the deployment of AI platforms to track climate emissions. Her work is published or forthcoming in Technology in Society, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, and Research in Sociology of Organizations. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science with honors in Science, Technology, and Society, and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University.

Publications:
Fligstein, Neil & Huang, Janna Z. 2026. [Forthcoming] (equal authorship) Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Creation of Multistakeholder Governance Fields for Climate Change: The Case of the Corporate Climate Disclosure Field. Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Organizations and Climate Change [Walker, E. and Vasi, I. (eds.)].

Huang, Janna Z. 2023. A Break in the Cloud: The Local Sociotechnical Affordances Underlying Global Internet Infrastructures. Technology in Society 74:102319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102319