People

Haesoo Kim is a Ph.D student in Cornell Information Science studying risk and violence in online social interactions. Her previous work has explored how harassment and violence manifest through social media, designing interventions to mitigate the negative effect of online violence, and exploring the role of research in resolving the socio-technical structures of abuse. She is broadly interested in the intersection of digital risk experiences and individuals' self-expression, exploration, and community building, specifically how online interactions can mitigate or exacerbate individuals' perceptions and experiences with risk.

haesookim.info/

Marie is excited about people, who create connections, spark important conversations and inspire others. Favorite themes & topics include health and sexuality, feminist utopias, collectives benefitting from technologies, music and sunlight reflections in water.

www.linkedin.com/in/marie-kochsiek/

Kelsey Cotton [she/her] is a vocalist-artist-mover working with experimental music, Musical Artificial Intelligence, electronic textiles, soft-robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction. As a researcher, Kelsey is fascinated with pushing the limits of musical bodies, intersomatic experiences between fleshy and synthetic bodies, and first-person feminist perspectives of musical AI.

www.kelseycotton.com/

Andrea Botero is a Colombian born Finnish based designer and researcher. Her work explores counts as design, what other practices for world making are there, and which ones we need to call into being.

www.aalto.fi/en/people/andrea-botero-cabrera

Helena Linder is an artist and researcher working with musical instruments and photography. Having a background in physics, she finds beauty in historical explorations of sound and light.

helenalinder.com

Daisy O'Neill (she/her) is a PhD candidate exploring how feminist design practices can be used to surface and improve women's experience's in clinical lifestyle change care pathways. She is currently zoomed in on food and nutrition, taking a feminist and fat liberation perspective to unpack current nutrition care systems and speculate on alternative futures.

www.linkedin.com/in/daisy-o-neill-230394144/

Rosie Bellini is an academic researcher and advocate specializing in the identification and mitigation of technology-facilitated abuse in interpersonal relationships. Her inner sparkle comes from the drive to make technology safer for every individual in working directly with those who cause harm and those affected by it.

Irene Kaklopoulou (she/they) is an interaction designer and PhD student at Umeå University, Sweden. Their research draws on crip and feminist theories, exploring notions of in-betweenness and liminality in the design of self-tracking and biosensing technologies for the body and its health.

Ana Henriques is currently a PhD student at the University of Lisbon focusing on the intersections of ethics, feminist HCI and community-based work while exploring what community-based care ethics could look like as a process of feminist ethical frameworking. She is also a member of the SIGCHI Equity Committee.

anahenriques.eu

Giulia Tomasello is an interaction designer and educator committed to female intimate care and its innovation. Winner of the S+T+Arts Prize in 2018, she offers a new, deeper understanding in female’s wellbeing and prevention, developing innovative tools at the intersection of medical and social sciences.

gitomasello.com

Betsy Pleasants is a reproductive health researcher working with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the University of California, Berkeley. She received her DrPH from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2024, leading mixed-methods research on sexual and reproductive health issues, particularly in access to reproductive health information and services. She seeks to further reproductive health equity in the US, focusing on exploring and leveraging technologies for health through rigorous, creative, and innovative research approaches.

www.bpleasants.com/

Seora (박서라, she/they) critically investigates how technology shapes and mediates the lived experiences of women, LGBTQIA+ communities, and other marginalized groups through a culturally situated lens. At the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Feminist/Queer Theory, her research has explored how the design of technology interacts with sociocultural norms in Korea to normalize LGBTQIA+ communities’ online dating practices and to catalyze technology-facilitated sexual violence against women.

parkseora.cargo.site/

Diana is an interdisciplinary researcher and co-founder of Diversa. From a feminist perspective, she studies, designs, and develops Artificial Intelligence and data technologies across various fields, exploring their ethical, social, and political implications.

www.linkedin.com/in/diana-m-466287234/

Sarah Fox is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human Computer Interaction Institute, where she directs the Tech Solidarity Lab. Her research focuses on how technological artifacts challenge or propagate social exclusions by examining existing systems and building alternatives.

www.sarahfox.info/

Ariana is a mixed methods researcher. She works on projects related to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and healthcare, abortion access, person-centered measurement approaches, SRH misinformation, LGBTQ+ health, and reproductive equity and justice.

Derya is a data visualization and human-computer interaction researcher. Her research draws on feminist theory to reimagine visualization methods and designs.

Josie Hamper's research explores how digital technologies, information and data shape people’s lived experiences of health and medicine and their interactions with healthcare services. She has a particular interest in practices of reproduction and is currently investigating the digital visual cultures of reproductive health and technologies.

Anja is a design researcher and educator (PhD), based in Umeå, Sweden. Her doctoral thesis was a collaboration between Umeå Institute of Design and Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (The Gender Research School) and has the title “Feminist Design Strategies for Transforming Design Museums Towards More Just Futures” (2024). In her work, Anja combines design research with feminist standpoint theory, posthuman feminism, queer phenomenology, onto-cartography, participatory design workshops and learning with and from protest archives and community spaces – with the bigger aim to contribute to efforts of re-designing the design discipline towards more just futures.

anjaneidhardtmokoena.com/

Camille is a PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Interactive Computing program. Her research involves using mixed-methods to understand and mitigate biases and harms towards underrepresented and low-resource languages and dialects in natural language processing tasks especially within the US context. Her work also explores marginalized groups and their experiences with social media, AI systems, and algorithmic bias.

camille2019.github.io

In my research, I explore futures of sexuality through a speculative design practice. I investigate political, social, and cultural implications in somatically intimate technologies and seek new ways for design to support sexual health and sexual well-being for disabled people. My research is rooted in cyberfeminist thinking, critical
disability studies, and interaction design.

annabrynskov.com

Ina Schuppe Koistinen is a medical researcher, artist, and founder of the microbiome-based skincare startup Cutis, spun out of Karolinska Institutet. She sparkles when science, creativity, and women’s health intersect — as seen in her watercolor art, her yoga practice, and her popular science book Vulva.

Yann Seznec is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on sound, music, physical interaction, games, and building new instruments.

www.yannseznec.com

Laia is an interaction designer researching novel body-centered technologies that reshape how we perceive and engage with our bodies, in areas of physical health and well-being. Her current research brings feminist and crip perspectives to the design of soft robotics for health.

Neha Kumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She conducts research on responsible and sustainable human-centered computing, investigating infrastructures of care, to inform the design and maintenance of such infrastructures leveraging emerging technologies. Pursuing community-engaged research, she foregrounds worker-centered perspectives and community wellbeing in contexts surrounding care. Her work on planetary care bridges scholarship on sustainability and development in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Neha's research has received over a dozen awards and recognitions at premier HCI venues. She has served as President of ACM SIGCHI since 2021 and Chair of ACM’s SIG Governing Board since 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Information Management Systems from UC Berkeley, Master’s in Computer Science and Education from Stanford University, and Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Applied Math from UC Berkeley.

 Mariel is a postdoctoral researcher at BUAP in Mexico and a member of the FAIR Network for Feminist AI Research. She works on feminist approaches to technology and explores how sociotechnical systems can support or undermine community networks, social justice, and collective agency in Latin America.

Mafalda Gamboa is a design researcher focusing on first-person perspectives as an essential component of design research and has written several autoethnographies including on her experience of pregnancy. With a background in architecture, she has a strong interest in making-oriented methods such as photography, sketching, stickers, embroidery, and collages.

gamboa.owlstown.net/

Adrian is a PhD candidate researching reproductive justice and care practices with technologies, particularly in the context of abortion justice. They prioritize community-engaged research by partnering with abortion access organizations, and producing public knowledge mobilization projects.

Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad's work focuses on privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) for the social good including gender and cybersecurity, detecting and mitigating online hate speech via LLMs, and bias and discrimination in AI and ML. She is the director of the Usable Security and Privacy (USP) Lab at RHUL and an international leader in FemTech security and privacy.

www.linkedin.com/in/maryammehr/

Aman is a PhD student at Georgia Tech who conducts research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He draws on theories from gender studies and welfare economics to understand and design AI-based systems for and with care workers.

amankhullar.github.io/

PhD Cyber Security researcher focusing on Femtech, Usability and the Differential Vulnerabilities. Professional background in User Centred Design within the public sector.

Safra A. N. Martinussen is a PhD researcher in the Digital Design Department at the IT University of Copenhagen investigating deeply situated design methodologies within the TRAnsformations in CarE (TRACE) research project. Her current research examines the complex transition from parental management to self-care for adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, focusing on how digital monitoring technologies mediate care relationships and the tension between necessary oversight and emerging autonomy. Previously, she co-authored "Delineating a Design Space for Premenstrual Disorders as a Relational Phenomenon" (NordiCHI 2024), which established her approach to transforming individual health experiences into relational phenomena through technology-mediated care. With a multidisciplinary background spanning education, assistive devices, prosthetic technology, and digital design, her work aims to develop methods for deeply situated design that recognizes the diversity of users and the entanglement of care technologies within dynamic care collectives.

www.linkedin.com/in/safra-martinussen-77700181/

She’s a cultural anthropologist exploring how digital technologies -especially datification strategies- shape urban life through community workshops and digital rights research.

Cristina is an HCI researcher and a PhD candidate. Her focus has been on designing digital technology for marginalized communities and exploring how digital technology can foster reproductive care.

sites.google.com/iu.edu/cristina-bosco/about

Pınar examines decolonial feminist perspectives through participatory design, using speculative narratives to co-imagine care-oriented digital systems. She also enjoys experimenting with alternative forms of expression.

Pelin is a postdoctoral researcher at ITU Copenhagen. Her research interest lies in investigating the affective relationships between humans and conversational AI to tackle personal and environmental care.

www.pelinkaraturhan.com

Asra is a PhD Candidate at IIIT Delhi, India. Her work lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), crisis informatics, and critical computing. She examines how people in conflict-affected regions like Kashmir engage with technologies amid prolonged socio-political disruption. As an interdisciplinary researcher, she employs computational and social science methods like ethnography, grounded in feminist and critical theory, to study how communities navigate infrastructural breakdowns, digital marginalization, and political uncertainty. Her work informs socio-technical design that is grounded in people’s values, lived realities, and structural vulnerabilities.

Kate Sheridan is a PhD student and qualitative researcher in the Medical Sociology & Health Experiences Research Group at the University of Oxford focused on exploring the ways digital health technologies are changing women’s approaches to fertility care in the UK. She is a dual US/UK citizen and has a background in non-profit software development and cross-country comparative social policy. She is interested in co-productive methods of technology design.

Ran’s research focuses on designing expressive robotic touch using wearable and shape-changing technology. She is particularly interested in developing novel haptic interfaces and toolkits to empower touch ideation while exploring diverse perceptions and alternative interpretations. Through conducting design experiments, she aims to understand touch meaning-making and uncover creative design opportunities for expressive haptics.

Mirca Madianou is Professor in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the social consequences of digital infrastructures and artificial intelligence (AI) in global majority contexts which she explores in her latest book: Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful. Her current research on digital identity systems in refugee camps in Thailand involves participatory art methods to reimagine technology otherwise.

Karin Hansson is an artist and professor of media technology, specializing in collaborative processes and participatory methodologies. She is particularly interested in the "monsters" that emerge when social norms and values are amplified through communication technologies.

www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/contact/researchers/karin-hansson

Renee Noortman is a design researcher with a PhD in Industrial Design from Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research combines storytelling, design fiction and feminist practice to imagine positive, alternative futures. She currently works as an Artist in Residence at Trudo, a social housing corporation in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

reneenoortman.com

Coye Cheshire is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a faculty affiliate with the Wallace Center for Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health. As a social psychologist and sociologist, his mixed-methods research investigates the social affordances and limitations of various information technologies. His current empirical work examines trust, risk, and social harms related to health misinformation in technology-mediated environments.

Beatrice is an Assistant Professor interested in designing technology with disabled people. She draws from critical disability studies, feminist theories, and her lived experience to rethink the role of technology in shaping social relationships, interactions, access, and inclusion. Her research methods include research-through-design, and participatory approaches, often combined with prototyping.

www.linkedin.com/in/beatrice-vincenzi-8181b559/

Sònia Moretó is a dietician and nutritionist, currently phD candidate at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Her work focuses on cocreation processes in digital health, participatory methodologies in the setting of menopause.

Sara is a PhD Fellow exploring how gender is produced within technologies in different ways, particularly in the context of intimate relationships. With a background in Gender Studies, she has a particular interest in critical feminist theories and how intersections of power influence technology use, and is currently focusing on masculinities.

www.linkedin.com/in/sara-sig

Pushpendra Singh is an HCI researcher with an emphasis on translational research. He works in Public Health and builds inclusive digital systems for low-resource settings.

Sara Moin is a PhD research scholar dedicated to creating inclusive and participatory technology solutions, particularly in women's health and social impact. Their work bridges design, technology, and feminist research, aiming to challenge systemic barriers and empower communities through thoughtful, human-centered innovation.

in.linkedin.com/in/sara-moin-b49523172

She first brought the world to light about the 'Nth Room' incident, a massive child and youth online sexual exploitation case in 2019. She is currently fighting with survivors of deepfake-based sexual violence.

www.instagram.com/56flame/

Lakshmi’s work is where design, social communication, ecological practice, and the grassroots meet. Her pioneering work in the field of reproductive health communication and in sustainable menstrual management has had a deep and broad impact in rural areas in Rajasthan and across India

thehardcopy.co/why-design-needs-copyleft/

Lucca designs, develops and evaluates tangible and playful interactions for health, learning, arts and entertainment, and loves to collaborate with health care professionals and artists.

Sarah Homewood’s research is informed by her interest in how technologies both reflect and influence societal perspectives on bodies, specifically within self-tracking. Her research methods include co-design and research-through-design and is often grounded in crip, feminist and phenomenological theories.

Ivana is an Argentinean activist working to re-think tech and AI to make injustice visible. Ivana lives in Bariloche, Argentina, loves trail running, biking and climbing mountains.