Adrian is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. They study design equity, disability justice in the academic institution, and social movements. They are also the node facilitator for Design Justice Network, Toronto. Adrian works as a grassroots community organizer with and for students with access barriers at the university, and speaks on issues of ethics and inclusion in design. Adrian holds a M.I. in User Experience Design from the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.
Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada. He studies the role of technology in social movements and the resistance practices of communities at the margins. In the past, he pursued M.Phil in Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Paridhi Gupta has a PhD in Gender Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is currently working as a Post Doc in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at Zurich University, Sweden. She has worked extensively on gendered social movements in urban areas while focusing on cultural forms of protests. She is interested in mobilization practices within contemporary social movements, and centering activists’ voices. Alongside it, she also works in areas of public feminist art, inclusive pedagogies, digital humanities and human geography.
Shamika Klassen is passionate about people and technology. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in African and African-American studies in 2011, she served a year with AmeriCorps in NYC. She went on to study technology and ethics by developing technowomanism at Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York. There, she also created and developed the concept of a Tech Chaplain. She received her Master of Divinity from Union in 2017. She currently attends CU Boulder as a doctoral student in their Information Science department and is studying technology, ethics, and social justice issues.
Maggie Jack (she/her) researches the role of media in post-conflict healing, along with other questions of work and technology in global contexts. Her forthcoming book Media Ruins describes Cambodian post-genocide media reconstruction as a form of future building and subtle political action. She is a postdoctoral scholar at Syracuse University/UC Irvine and holds a PhD in Information Science (2020) from Cornell University. She teaches "Transnational Technology" and "Ethics and Technology" at NYU Tandon.
Jun Liu is an award-winning author and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research covers political sociology, political communication, and comparative and computational social science, with a specific focus on political activism, digital communication, and democratization. His work has received awards from the International Communication Association and the American Political Science Association.
Priyank Chandra is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His research studies the sociotechnical practices of communities living at the margins of society, with a focus on informality and resistance. He holds a PhD in Information from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.