Participants

DESIGN JUSTICE AI Participants so far include the co-PIs at all four collaborating institutes as well as the below, affiliated faculty, and a representative from Design Justice Network.

Rutgers University, Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA)

• Lauren M. E. Goodlad: Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Chair of the Critical AI @ Rutgers initiative, and editor of Critical AI
• Matthew Stone: Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Rutgers
• Brittney Cooper: Professor of Africana Studies/Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; a scholar of Black women’s intellectual history and race and gender politics, Cooper is currently working on sexism and racism in digital and social media contexts.
• Alex Guerrero: Professor of Philosophy; a J.D. who specializes in moral and political philosophy as well as African and Native American Philosophy, Guerrerro has taught a recent graduate seminar on the Ethics and Politics of AI.  

Australian National University (ANU), Humanities Research Centre

• Kate Henne: Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance and the Justice and Technoscience Lab, Henne is also the Chief Investigator on the Humanizing Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge project; she researches the ways governance changes technological approaches. 
• Adrian Mackenzie: Professor of Sociology whose research on “AI”’s impact on contemporary cultures includes the linkages between platform infrastructure and prediction, and large image collections.
• Katrina Sluis: Head of Photography & Media Arts and co-director of the Computational Culture Lab, Sluis researches the datafication of photography and other implications of large image models.

University of Pretoria, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship

• Vukosi Marivate: Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria and lead for the Data Science for Social Impact Group
• Abiodun Modupe: Lecturer in Computer Science and specialist in the modeling of local African languages, Modupe is currently implementing a degree program in “Big Data Science” for the Data Science department.
• Brenda Nomadlozi Bokaba, Lecturer in African Languages and Literature, Bokaba is an activist for multilingualism across South Africa and works with community partners on local African languages.  
• Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem: Head of Philosophy, AI Ethics lead for the Centre for AI Research, and Chair of the Southern African Conference on AI Research (SACAIR), Ruttkamp-Bloem is an ethics policy researcher currently serving as a member of the UNESCO World Commission for Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (IUHPST).

University of Connecticut, Humanities Institute (UCHI)

• Michael P. Lynch: Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and former director of the Humanities Institute at UConn
• Alexis L. Boylan: Director of Academic Affairs, UCHI and professor of Art and Art History and the Africana Studies Institute, Boylan works on the rights of visual artists in regard to “generative” technologies. Specifically, she is interested in how this tech will impact local art communities and markets globally. 
• Eleni Coundouriotis: Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Coundouriotis researches African literature and human rights.
• Yohei Igarashi: Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Digital Humanities and Media Studies for UCHI, Igarashi is working on collaborative projects with language models and has written on the relation between “generative” writing and literary history.

Design Justice Network (DJN)

• Wesley Taylor: Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University, member of the Design Justice Steering Committee, Taylor is a print maker, graphic designer, musician, animator, educator, mentor and curator whose practice is rooted in social justice.

We are grateful to all of the above faculty for their input as well as to CCA Business Managers Matt Leonaggeo and Vi Hom, Rutgers Grants Specialist Justin Samolewicz, and the Critical AI @ Rutgers team (Kelsey Keyes, Andi Craciun, Jai Yadav, and Sabrina Burns).