Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor, and speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education. His writings have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired Magazine, the Chronicle of […]

This talk offers some afterthoughts on Jihoon Kim's recent book Documentary's Expanded Fields in relation to his current book project entitled Crisis Media: Expansion of Media in the Precarious 21st Century. This project develops the concept of 'crisis media' as an array of media practices and formations that function as both to cause and to […]

Dr. Garth Davies is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. His current work involves developing a database for evaluating programs for countering violent extremism; the social psychology of radicalization; and the statistical modeling and projection of violent right-wing extremism. He has also been involved in the development of the […]

Fallon Wilson from the Black Tech Futures Research Institute will present on the Black Tech Ecosystem Index. About Dr. Wilson: Through her work with non-profits, academia, and government partnerships, Dr. Fallon S. Wilson strives to make visible the work of historic and modern-day Black crises solvers. As the Lead Principal Investigator for #BlackTechFutures Research Institute, […]