Ari Schlesinger
PhD Student, School of Interactive Computing,Georgia Tech
Including Equity in Tech Work: A Quick, Paper-Based Guide
Figuring out how to build equity into tech is no easy task. We spend so much time worrying about bugs, efficiency, and MIA curly brackets… it isn’t always clear how we should focus on equity, accessibility, and inclusion. Still, we need to ask ourselves: how does the tech we build benefit some while further harming others? In this talk I am going to share with you an overview of papers and practices that can help us reconcile the details of tech work with the power and social impact of the things we build.
References
- Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective by D. Haraway
- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics Doctrine by K. Crenshaw
- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century by D. Haraway
- “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles by C. T. Mohanty
- “Introduction” to Disability Theory by T. Siebers
- Race After the Internet edited by L. Nakamura
- Living a Feminist Life by S. Ahmed
- Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design: Outlining Key Design Strategies and Commitments by L. Dombrowski, E. Harmon, and S. Fox
- Connected Activism: Indigenous Uses of Social Media for Shaping Political Change by M. Duarte
- Intersectional HCI: Engaging Identity through Gender, Race, and Class by A. Schlesinger, W. K. Edwards, and R. E Grinter
- Trans Competent Interaction Design: A Qualitative Study on Voice, Identity, and Technology by A. A. Ahmed
- Let’s Talk About Race: Identity, Chatbots, and AI by A. Schlesinger, K. P. O’Hara, and A. S. Taylor
- Design Justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice by S. Constanza-Chock
- Project Include
Biography
Ari Schlesinger (@AriSchlesinger) researches how we can build equity into software, hardware, and the design process. Ari’s work in Human-Computer Interaction uncovers strategies for addressing complicated tech problems by connecting people, systems, and infrastructure in novel ways. Recent publications include Intersectional HCI: Engaging Identity through Gender, Race, and Class and Let’s Talk About Race: Identity, Chatbots, and AI.
Previously, Ari worked with the Human Experience & Design Group at Microsoft and as a Research Project Manager on an NSF grant. Schlesinger is a PhD student in the Human-Centered Computing program in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. To find out more, check out www.AriSchlesinger.com