Event description coming soon.
This event is open to the public, and we encourage all interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students to attend.
Refreshments will be provided to the first 100 attendees.
A corresponding opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to enjoy a free networking lunch with the panelists will be available. Interested students may register for this session using the same form as the main event.
Advance registration is recommended:
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Register to attend on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V1IsoIFFQ5K6fdVIS00FyA
Meet the Panelists:
Nina-Simone Edwards is the Technology and Research Librarian at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her research examines privacy, technology governance, and information justice, with particular attention to how race, vulnerability, and digital access shape experiences of surveillance and cybersecurity harms. She recently completed both a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgetown Law's Institute for Technology Law & Policy, where she worked on the Redesigning the Governance Stack Project, and a Master's in Library and Information Science from The Catholic University of America. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Nina-Simone Edwards is the Technology and Research Librarian at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her research examines privacy, technology governance, and information justice, with particular attention to how race, vulnerability, and digital access shape experiences of surveillance and cybersecurity harms. She recently completed both a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgetown Law's Institute for Technology Law & Policy, where she worked on the Redesigning the Governance Stack Project, and a Master's in Library and Information Science from The Catholic University of America. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Ngozi Harrison is a Ph.D. Student at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Information Studies, whose research primarily investigates the relationship between machine learning, quantitative and computational methods, and society. His work critiques algorithmic culture and computational reason and sits at the intersection of Black Studies, Critical Quantitative and Computational Methods, and Critical Information Studies. He is currently working on his dissertation proposal, which critically examines the underlying values, norms, and assumptions of machine learning practice to develop new frameworks for liberatory technical practice and justice-oriented technologies.
DJ is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, technology, and learning and an Assistant Professor of Computing at Chicago State University. She particularly examines how and if researchers, educators, and technologists might use and create technologies toward liberatory learning and living. DJ (Stephanie T. Jones) earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Learning Sciences and an M.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University. She holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University.
Meet the Moderator:
Rayvon Fouché holds a joint appointment as Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication, and Professor of Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrative Marketing Communications, and is currently Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the School of Communication. His major publications include Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), Technology Studies (Sage Publications, 2008), the 4th Edition of the Handbook of Science & Technology Studies (MIT Press, 2016), Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), and Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (Stanford University Press, 2025). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society.
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