Research on Digital Technologies, Gender, Immigration and Internet Policy

• ​​I'm an advisor for the Feminist Internet Research Network. ​​A collaborative project among activist and grass-root organizations in the​Global South to impact Internet Policy​


• I participated in an expert meeting organized by The Association for Progressive Communications to produce this report on Mapping the research landscape in Gender and Digital Technology in the ​Global South

• I am an academic partner involved in the project: Sanctuary Cities as Emerging Frontiers: Transnational Dynamics and Lived Spaces of Undocumented Mexicans in the United States”. Coordinated by ​El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.

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• I have advanced research on The COMPAS algorithm: Machine Learning bias and the perpetuation of ​mass incarceration in the United States


• I compiled my research on Undocumented Latino youth in the United States: history of their resistance in a video (Spanish) Los jóvenes latinos indocumentados en Estados Unidos. Una mirada desde ​el lente del Juvenicidio y los procesos de resistencia y cambio

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Publications

• A book chapter where I introduce the method of Enactment (from Theatre) and the framework of Design in the context of Participatory Research.​​


• A workshop where I explore the possibility of framing reflective practices in participatory design processes, departing from feminist politics and positionality.


• A publication where I explore the notions of participation, creativity and design in research  methodologies around gender and ICTs.​


•  A panel that brings together internet policy experts, artists and designers to explore data ecosystems, the network economy and avenues for creative interventions in these fields.

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Teaching

​At the School of Design and Creative Technologies, UT Austin

• Design and policing (Fall 2022)
  
• Participatory Design (Fall 2022)
  
• Design Theories and Methods. Introduction to Critical Theories in Design Practice
• Images in Communication. Graphic Design Studio - based on two contexts: The Future of News and Experimental Cartography
• Internship in Design
• Capstone Exhibition 
• Service Design - Graduate Design Studio

At the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, UT Dallas

• Design 1. Introduction to visual composition and design research methods
• Computer Imaging. Visual design techniques in computer software - Graduate Teaching Assistant
• Introduction to TechnoCulture. Critical analysis of technology & culture - Graduate Teaching Assistant
• Critical Making. Approaches to the social study of technology through material explorations - Graduate Teaching Assistant

 
At Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Bangalore, India
 

• Infrastructuring community care: Healthcare and Human-Computer interaction. Graduate Design Studio. Co-Faculty
• Gathering Echoes: Gender, Technology and Participatory Design. Undergraduate capstone project
• Elements and principles of Design: Data visualization. Graduate Studio. Co-Faculty
• Service design for the public. Graduate Design Studio
• Critical advocacy design. Graduate Design Studio
• Writing studio for undergraduate capstone students