Sarah Fox is a PhD candidate in the Tactile and Tactical (TAT) Design Lab at the University of Washington. Drawing on feminist theory, science and technology studies, design studies her research examines how feminist ideas move through technology cultures. Her work has earned Best Paper awards at CSCW and DIS and a Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI. She has organized workshops on social justice and design at CHI 2016, participation in IoT at Aarhus 2015, and a panel on equity and design at the 2015 Seattle Design Festival. She was a participant in the CSCW 2015 Feminist and Social Computing workshop.
Amanda Menking is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington’s Information School. She is interested in sociotechnical questions at the intersection of user-generated content systems, participation, and knowledge production. Her current work focuses on women and Wikipedia. Her work has earned a Best Paper award at CHI. She was a participant of the CSCW 2014 Feminism and Social Media workshop and a co-organizer of the CSCW 2015 Feminist and Social Computing workshop.
Stephanie Steinhardt is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is interested in the social and political impacts of large-scale long-term technological investments on the shape of life, labor and knowledge production, currently focused on developments around climate change and oceanography in the U.S. Her work has earned Best Paper Honorable Mentions at CHI and CSCW. She was a participant of the CSCW 2014 Feminism and Social Media workshop and a co-organizer of the CSCW 2015 Feminist and Social Computing workshop.
Anna Lauren Hoffmann is a postdoctoral scholar with the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics and draws heavily on feminist critiques of liberal theories of justice. Recently, she has been focused on developing a conception of “data violence” to describe the normative impositions of data-intensive systems and platforms, especially as they impact trans people and other gender minorities. Her work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, New Media & Society, and Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, as well as popular outlets like The Guardian and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Shaowen Bardzell is an Associate Professor of Informatics at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing. Bardzell’s research explores the contributions of design, feminism, and social science to support technology’s role in social change. Recent research foci have included emancipatory and participatory social science, criticality in design, care ethics and feminist utopian perspectives for IT, and culture and creative industries in Asia. She is the co-author of Humanistic HCI (Morgan & Claypool, 2015) and co-editor of Critical Theory and Interaction Design (MIT Press, in press). She chaired the technical programs at ACM DPPI 2013, DIS2014, and Aarhus 2015 and has organized workshops at CHI, DIS, CSCW, NordiCHI, British HCI, PDC, EPIC, ACE 2007-2016, including two workshops on feminism, gender, and interaction design at ACM CHI2011 and CHI2014.