Chandra Kavanagh is the Ethics Officer for the Newfoundland and Labrador Health Research Ethics Authority. She also teaches biomedical ethics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Chandra received her PhD in 2019 from the philosophy department at McMaster University, where she studied biomedical ethics and feminist philosophy. Chandra’s presentations on political and ethical issues have received high acclaim across Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia and she has been widely published in both academic and popular media. A major force for ethical digital data management in Canada, Chandra runs a national working group for the implementation of ethical and responsible data management best practices and she has served as a digital ethics adviser for McMaster’s Research and High Performance Computing Support group.