Organizers

Adriana Alvarado Garcia is a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research uses social media data as a proxy to understand local and situated systems of knowledge. In the past, she has partnered with national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Mexico to examine the role of organizational practices and human interpretation when NGOs use data to inform their interventions. Building on the lessons of these partnerships, Adriana is developing tools that support NGOs to use digital traces as evidence to uncover citizens’ plurality of ways of knowing and doing in times of crisis by centering on community perspectives and the context of data production

Ivana Feldfeber is a feminist activist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently based in Bariloche, Patagonia. Ivana holds two degrees in Education and Social Pedagogy, and she is completing a postgraduate diploma in Data Science, Machine Learning, and its Applications at the University of Córdoba, Argentina. She is the General Director of the gender data observatory DataGénero. Founded by Ivana with a group of scientists and activists from different disciplines and countries, DataGénero is the first observatory of its kind in the region to work at the intersection of gender bias, gender data, and feminism. Representing DataGénero, Ivana has hosted and attended numerous events concerning data in Latin America.

Milagros Miceli is a sociologist and a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at Technische Universität Berlin. She also works as a researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Her research interrogates work practices of machine learning data production and focuses on power differentials as well as their effects on datasets and systems outputs. Milagros’ work comprises ethnographic fieldwork with data annotators, collectors, and scientists from the Global South, including Latin America.

Saide Mobayed is a researcher interested in how social phenomena are enumerated and rendered comparable across time, space and scale. She is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she looks at how data on feminicide is being globally collected and locally contested with the use of digital tools, technologies and methods. At Cambridge, Saide is also a research assistant at The Whistle, a project that develops digital tools to connect witnesses of human rights violations to advocacy organisations. In 2015, Saide joined the Femicide Team at the UN Studies Association where she is currently the Femicide Watch Platform coordinator, a knowledge space that provides selected, high-quality information on the issue of femicide/feminicide.

Helena Suárez Val is an activist and social communications producer focusing on human rights and feminism. She has worked for local and international feminist and human rights organisations in UK, South Africa and Uruguay. Since 2015, she has been collecting and caring for data about cases of feminicide in Uruguay (feminicidiouruguay.net). With Catherine D’Ignazio (Data+Feminism Lab at MIT) and Silvana Fumega (ILDA), she leads Data Against Feminicide, a project that seeks to understand the production of feminicide data and support its community of practice. She holds MAs in Gender, Media and Culture (Goldsmiths) and Social Science Research (Warwick), and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, researching the circulation of data and data visualisations of feminicide in Latin America.