Organizers

Sarah Gilbert

Sarah is a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Maryland College Park on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics project where she studies ethical practices for engaging in social media research. She also studies policies and practices that make online communities healthier. She is an active Redditor, who engages in public scholarship on the platform by creating Reddit-specific summarizations of her research and participating in discussions related to social computing and platform governance.

Casey Fiesler

Casey is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder, where much of her work involves research ethics for social computing; she is also on the research ethics committee for SIGCHI. She served for two cycles as Communications Chair for CSCW where she started the Medium publication, she has written a number of op-eds for Slate, and her research has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, and Teen Vogue

Lindsay Blackwell

Lindsay is a Researcher on Facebook’s Community Integrity team, where she researches ways to detect, prevent, and sanction online harassment and hate speech. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information, where her dissertation applies theories of criminal and social justice to online moderation practices. Lindsay’s prior career in social media marketing has informed her commitment to public scholarship, particularly by engaging on Twitter with other scholars, industry practitioners, and members of the press and broader public.

Michael Ann DeVito

Michael Ann is a PhD Candidate in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern Uni- versity, where her work addresses everyday human/AI collaboration on social media. Her work also includes methods development around participatory, community critique for Queer design and intra- community values conflict resolution, including the creation of research ’zines. She formerly worked as a journalist in the Washington, DC market and taught multimedia science reporting at George Washington University.

Michaelanne Dye

Michaelanne is a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her work draws on the fields of Anthropology, CSCW, and ICTD to study how people collaboratively design, access, and participate with internet technologies in constrained contexts. She works with marginalized communities to explore the grassroots, socialtechnical processes and systems that emerge when navigating political, social, and economic duress. Her work has been featured on CNN, The Atlantic, New Scientist, and Vice, among others.

Shamika Goddard

Shamika is a person who is passionate about people and technology! She was born and raised in San Antonio, TX, and is the oldest of four children. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in African and African-American studies, she served a year with AmeriCorps in New York City. She went on to study technology and ethics by developing technowomanism at Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York for her Master of Divinity. There, she also created and developed the concept of a Tech Chaplain. She currently attends CU Boulder as a doctoral student in their Information Science department and is studying technology, ethics, and social justice issues. You can watch her discuss technology, ethics and science fiction along with Jess Smith on their YouTube channel SciFi iRL

Kishonna Gray

Kishonna is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois - Chicago, and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Dr. Gray is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar and digital herstorian whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism. Dr. Gray’s most recent book, “Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming” (LSU Press, 2020), explores the visual, textual, and/or oral engagement of the Black body in transmediated spaces, focusing on the critical deconstruction of the exploited, hypervisible, labor of any associated Black performances (online and ‘IRL’).

David Nemer

David is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching interests cover the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), ICT for Development (ICT4D), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Nemer is an ethnographer whose fieldwork include the Slums of Vitória, Brazil; Havana, Cuba; Guadalajara, Mexico; and Eastern Kentucky, Appalachia. Nemer is the author of “Favela Digital: The other side of technology” (Editora GSA, 2013). He holds a Ph.D. in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University and has written for The Guardian, El País, The Huffington Post, Salon, and The Intercept.

Estelle Smith

Estelle is a Computer Science PhD Candidate at GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota. Her work has touched on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction including On- line Health Communities, Human-Centered Machine Learning, and Science Communications/Online Misinformation. Estelle has conducted studies with HCI Researchers to understand their experi- ences engaging with the media, highlight design opportunities for sociotechnical systems involved in research dissemination, and distill strategies for effective engagement with media organization