Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada. His research examines the role of technology in worker resistance and unionisation amidst the platformization of urban life. Specifically, he investigates how digital tools can support unions and workers in location-based labour platforms to organise around & resist/confront the impacts of climate change on their working conditions.

Hiu-Fung Ching is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, working in sociology, media studies, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). His research explores the intersection of technology, inequality, and social suffering in the domains of work, mental health, and alternative economies. Recently, he has been studying the technopolitics of AI care technologies in East Asia.

Kaushar is a PhD student at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information, specialising in platform governance, platform labour, and the creator economy. Her research explores how social media platforms use digital tools to manage their relationships with content creators and third parties, including partners, data intermediaries, and advertisers. 

Anubha Singh is a PhD candidate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her qualitative and interpretive research focused on India, brings transnational attention to how datafication enables new forms of technological governance as it turns to newer sites such as smallholder agriculture.

Nussara Tieanklin is a PhD student focused on environmental health and labour inequities in Southeast Asia. Her work examines how chronic air pollution exposure intersects with the economic vulnerability of marginalised groups and gig workers, particularly motorcycle rideshare drivers in urban Thailand. She explores how income instability, limited health literacy, and policy neglect shape workers' ability to manage environmental risks.

Jen Liu is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University. Her work studies the intertwined ecological, social, and political implications of computing technologies and infrastructures. She employs ethnographic and design methods to understand these challenges and build alternatives for livable and equitable futures.

Isabella Jaimes Rodriguez is a Master’s student in Science & Technology Studies at York University, Canada. Her research examines how technologies (from print media to digital platforms) mediate and represent the labour of domestic cleaners. She has explored the experiences of Latinx immigrant house cleaners in Toronto and ride-hailing workers in Colombia, focusing on how digital technologies shape labour, visibility, and inequality at the intersection of technology, gender, migration, and justice. 

Noopur Raval is an Assistant Professor in Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her body of research is devoted to understanding how emerging technologies contribute to people's attempts at crafting a `good life', especially in majority world settings. She has studied gig economy platforms and is now studying AI tools in the context of education and creative work. 

Priyank Chandra is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and Director of the STREET Lab. His research studies the sociotechnical practices of communities living at the margins of society, with a focus on informality and resistance. He looks at how communities self-organise, the role technologies play, and how we can design to support these processes.