Dr. Maria Murray is a researcher, teacher, and socially engaged artist at Munster Technological University. Her work is concerned with pluralistic and transformative approaches to participation with local communities to access hidden experiences and disrupt social norms to work towards more equitable and sustainable design. 

Dr Marguerite Barry is Associate Professor at the School of Information & Communication Studies in University College Dublin, with research interests in ethical design for human-computer interaction (HCI) and communication through digital media, building theory and tools to support ethical reflection in design and development, and interventions in practice. 

Claire Weizenegger is an experienced UX researcher and designer specialized in the intersection Human-Computer Interaction, product and interaction design. Using a critical lens, her research is centered around the intersection between privacy and trust with everyday (smart) technologies and its impact on social dynamics.

Dr. Morgan Vigil-Hayes is an associate professor of computer science in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. Her research revolves around characterizing network trace data and social media data to gain insights into the utilization and adaptation of existing networked systems within underserved communities.

Dr. Jared Duval is an Assistant professor in Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, where he directs the Playful Health Technology Lab. He has a Research through Design practice at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, Games/Play, and Health.

Brett A. Halperin is a Ph.D. Candidate studying Human Centered Design & Engineering and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington. His research investigates computational media and film production with a focus on generative AI, using critical, speculative, and community-based participatory design methods. 

Dr. Sarah Rüller is an activist-researcher and AI & Branding Strategist. Her research focuses on technology appropriation and project-based learning with Imazighen in the Moroccan High Atlas as well as social media censorship and content moderation. Her work calls for more pluralistic approaches to research methodologies. 

Helen O' Keeffe is a socially engaged artist and global citizenship educator at Crawford College of Art & Design, MTU. She is a coordinator of MTU's Irish Aid-funded Creativity & Change programme, where she collaborates with individuals, communities and organisations to design arts-based GCE learning practices that work towards an equitable and just world. 

Shelby Hagemann is a PhD student studying Informatics and Computing at Northern Arizona University. Her work explores co-designing community-centered technologies with populations historically underrepresented in the development of digital artifacts using value-sensitive design and participatory design practices. 

Dr. Angelika Strohmayer is an interdisciplinary researcher-maker and Associate Professor at Northumbria University’s School of Design, Arts, and Creative Industries. Her work explores the role of collaborative making with communities to work towards more socially just worlds.

Dr. Frederick van Amstel is Assistant Professor of Service Design and Experience Design at the Industrial Design Academic Department at UTFPR. There, he co-founded the Design & Oppression network and its local hub, the Laboratory of Design against Oppression (LADO). The Theater of the Techno-Oppressed is his primary experimental program.

Dr. Nadia Pantidi is a Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design at the School of Design Innovation, Te Herenga Waka-VUW. Her research leverages participatory and experience-centered design approaches that prioritise people’s values and needs and consider how to best support these and deliver social innovation and impact. 

Dr. Sarah Robinson is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, and Lero, Research Irelands Research Centre for Software. She uses creative qualitative methods to explore responsibility for software design, development, and use.