Organizers

Benedetta Lusi (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Interaction Design Group at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Her work focuses on designing compassionate technology to foster mental health and well-being in people. She brings together perspectives of design and the philosophy of technology to design digital and tangible tools for care. She is currently working on the design for abortion care and life transitions.

b.lusi@utwente.nl 

Adrian Petterson (she/they) is a PhD student in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, Toronto. Their work looks at how design can support abortion access through sustainable activism and care work. Her current work looks at abortion funds, abortion doulas, and online activist communities supporting abortion sourcing in the United States. They are trained as an abortion doula and works as an abortion advocacy volunteer with several organizations in the United States context.

a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca 

Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at Penn State University. Her research is situated at the intersection of women’s health and technology, aimed at designing for the neglected felt experiences of women navigating pregnancy after loss, with and through technology.

kamala.pt@psu.edu 

Michaela Krawczyk (she/her) is a PhD student in the Informatics department at Indiana University Bloomington in the United States. Her research interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction, health, media, and gender/identity. Her most recent work explores how digital tools and spaces can support people in writing and sharing their abortion stories.

mikrawcz@iu.edu 

Emily Tseng (she/her) is a postdoctoral scholar at Microsoft Research. She is broadly interested in how digital security and privacy intersect with power and care. Most recently, Emily focused on designing interventions to support survivors of technology-mediated intimate partner violence as a researcher-practitioner with the Clinic to End Tech Abuse. Emily previously earned a PhD in Information Science at Cornell University, and has led workshops at CSCW and FAccT on community-collaborative approaches to design. 

et397@cornell.edu 

Lara Reime (she/her) is a PhD Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen and member of the ETHOSLab, a critical feminist methods laboratory. Her work combines design and ethnographic methods to investigate the social, material, and political environments of (digital) reproductive technologies as well as the intimate data relations they foster. She has previously led workshops at NordiCHI and DRS.