Adriana Alvarado Garcia is a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Using a mix-methods approach, she designs contextualized technologies that support social media data migration from online to offline context to advocate for human rights in the context of Latin America.

Heloisa Candello is a Research Scientist at IBM Research in Brazil and at the ACM SIGCHI Volunteer Development Committee. She has expertise in leading and conducting mixed-methods research activities to understand people’s practices, and motivations to use AI technologies. Her research has been published in leading conferences in the HCI and Design fields.

Carl DiSalvo is a designer, writer, researcher, and educator. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with appointments in the School of Interactive Computing and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and directs the Experimental Civics Studio.

Marilyn Iriarte is a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland. She focuses in human-computer interaction, user experience designs, and sociotechnical information challenges faced by the Latino community.

Juan Fernando Maestre is a Ph.D candidate in Informatics at Indiana University. His research is at the intersection of HCI research methods, technology, and stigma. He applies novel methods to recruit and conduct research remotely with marginalized and vulnerable populations.

Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Civic Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on studying and proposing participatory frameworks and methods to conduct community-based, low-cost, appropriate technology design in collaboration with rural, historically marginalized communities in Latin America.

Marisol Wong-Villacres is a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech and also faculty at the Computer Science program of the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Ecuador. Her research interests lie at the intersection of culture, learning sciences, and information access, with a specific focus on pursuing an assets-based design of technologies for vulnerable communities.