Josefina Lucía is a trans programmer, activist for dissident technology, and teacher from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Josefina is co-founder of the Alternativa Laboral Trans cooperative, a worker cooperative specialized in technology and owned mostly by trans and non-binary people. Its objective is to expand job opportunities for trans and non-binary people. Josefina Lucía is a member of the Argentine Bisexual Network, an amateur dancer, and a player on the inclusive futsal team of the Ferrocarril Oeste club.
Selene Yang is a doctoral candidate in the Communication Program at the National University of La Plata. Selene's research focuses on analyzing the process of collecting, editing, and curating open geospatial data in OpenStreetMap from a feminist perspective. Selene is co-founder and coordinator of the Geochicas women mapper initiative. Selene was a fellow of the Open Knowledge Foundation for the Frictionless Data program, CONACYT Paraguay, and the Latin American Initiative for Open Data (ILDA).
Ulises A. Mejias is a professor of communication studies and director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York at Oswego. Ulises's research interests include critical data studies, the philosophy and sociology of technology, and the political economy of digital media. Dr. Mejias' work has appeared in several journals in his field, and he is the author of two books: "Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World" (2013, University of Minnesota Press) and, with Nick Couldry, "The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism" (2019, Stanford University Press). Dr. Mejias is co-founder of Tierra Comun (tierracomun.net) and the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement (nonalignedtech.net), two innovation and support networks of activists, educators, and academics working for the decolonization of data. He is on the board of Humanities New York, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been named a Fulbright Specialist for 2021-2025.