Organizers

Shm Garanganao Almeda (they/he) is a non-binary, Filipino-American artist and PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California: Berkeley. Their research at the intersection of art and technology investigates the impact of emerging technologies and digital interventions, such as generative algorithms and content recommendation systems, on creative individuals, practices and communities.

Forum Modi (he/him) is a transmasculine, Indian-American PhD student in the Informatics department at Indiana University. His research focuses on how online platforms provide social, medical, informational, etc. support for queer and intersectional populations and investigates how the use of these platforms can be improved to better support these communities.

Hellina Hailu Nigatu (she/her/hers) is an Ethiopian PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley . Her research lies in the intersection of AI and HCI, focused on making usable and accessible AI tools such as content moderation systems, data science tools, speech technology, and machine translation systems. Hellina is interested in using HCI principles to design technologies that center the needs of communities they serve.

Kishonna L. Gray (she/her/hers) is an African-American Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism.

Dr. Gray is the author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press, 2020), Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge, 2014), and the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming: Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press, 2018).

Isabel Li (they/she) is a Chinese-Kiwi artist and undergraduate student in Computer Science, Design Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research interests include building human-centered tools to engender creativity, investigating technological solutions for underserved communities with limited digital access, as well as the mutually nourishing relationship between emerging media and culture.

Hellina Hailu Nigatu (she/her/hers) is an Ethiopian PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley . Her research lies in the intersection of AI and HCI, focused on making usable and accessible AI tools such as content moderation systems, data science tools, speech technology, and machine translation systems. Hellina is interested in using HCI principles to design technologies that center the needs of communities they serve.

Shm Garanganao Almeda (they/he) is a non-binary, Filipino-American artist and PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California: Berkeley. Their research at the intersection of art and technology investigates the impact of emerging technologies and digital interventions, such as generative algorithms and content recommendation systems, on creative individuals, practices and communities.

Forum Modi (he/him) is a transmasculine, Indian-American PhD student in the Informatics department at Indiana University. His research focuses on how online platforms provide social, medical, informational, etc. support for queer and intersectional populations and investigates how the use of these platforms can be improved to better support these communities.

Hellina Hailu Nigatu (she/her/hers) is an Ethiopian PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley . Her research lies in the intersection of AI and HCI, focused on making usable and accessible AI tools such as content moderation systems, data science tools, speech technology, and machine translation systems. Hellina is interested in using HCI principles to design technologies that center the needs of communities they serve.