‘The Data Diaries’: Encoding Memories in a Quilt

Kelsey Dufresne is an education postdoctoral scholar with North Carolina State University’s Data Science Academy. Kelsey focuses on experiential and experimental community-centered design and learning.

Mary Downs is a teacher and educator-mentor in Onslow County Public School District where she teaches second grade. Mary is also a self-taught quilter who made her first quilt in 1995 when she was pregnant with her daughter Kelsey–and has since also taught herself to make table covers, cloth napkins, placements, curtains, pillows, and face masks.