Tamara Kneese | Twitter (X): @tamigraph | Mastodon: @tamigraph

Tamara Kneese is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab. Before joining D&S, she was lead researcher at Green Software Foundation, director of developer engagement on the green software team at Intel, and assistant professor of media studies and director of gender and sexualities studies at the University of San Francisco. Her first book, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, was published by Yale University Press in August 2023.

Tamara’s research juxtaposes histories of computing and automation with ethnographies of platform labor. She’s currently writing about AI’s relationship to both labor rights and environmental impacts. Her work has been published in academic journals including Social Text and Social Media + Society and in popular outlets including LARB, The Verge, The Atlantic, and Logic Magazine. In her spare time, Tamara is an organizer with the Tech Workers Coalition. She holds a PhD from NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.

Tonia Sutherland | Twitter (X): @toniasutherland

Tonia Sutherland is assistant professor of information studies at UCLA. Global in scope, Sutherland’s research focuses on the critical and liberatory in archival studies, digital studies, and science and technology studies, emphasizing the often-messy entanglements of memory, community, and technology.

An internationally recognized expert in the study of Black archival practices and Black digital archives, Sutherland is the author of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, 2023) as well as over two dozen research articles and book chapters. She is regularly invited to speak publicly on issues of discrimination and bias in digital technologies.

In addition to her research and teaching, Sutherland is the co-director of the Community Archives Lab at UCLA, co-founder and co-director of AfterLab at the University of Washington’s iSchool, and a member of the advisory board for the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies at NYU. She holds a PhD and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire College.