Our organizing committee is comprised of researchers with extensive experience researching digital safety related topics from multiple areas noted above. Additionally, multiple organizers have previous experience in running successful CSCW and HCI workshops, including in hybrid formats on safety and trauma-informed design, justice-oriented perspectives, the needs of vulnerable populations, conducting sensitive research, and designing AI.
Ashley Marie Walker, Google: Walker is a researcher on the Trust & Safety team within Google. Their work focuses on understanding the systems of marginalization and subsequent risks in sociotechnical systems and how empirically informed policy design can help with mitigation.
Michael Ann DeVito, Northeastern University (she/her): Dr. DeVito is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Communication Studies, and directs the Sociotechnical Equity and Agency Lab. She is an expert in user perception and adaptation in the context of visibility, marginalization, and online abuse/harassment. Her work is aimed at making sociotechnical systems safer and more understandable for end users.
Karla Badillo-Urquiola, University of Notre Dame (she/her/ella): Dr. KB is a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. She directs the EPOCH Research laboratory, designing technology-driven solutions that empower people and protect the well-being of youth in marginalized communities (e.g., foster care, juvenile justice, global south).
Rosanna Bellini, Cornell Tech (she/her): Dr. Bellini is a Postdoctoral Scholar. She specializes in mitigating technology-enabled abuse ‘tech abuse’ in intimate partner violence contexts by working directly with abusive partners and around instances of financial abuse.
Stevie Chancellor, University of Minnesota (she/her): Dr. Chancellor is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. She conducts research on human-centered AI for predicting and evaluating physically dangerous mental health behaviors in social media (e.g. eating disorders, suicidality, substance use disorders).
Jes Feuston, Meta: Dr. Feuston is an integrity and well-being researcher who specializes in qualitative methods including ethnography, participatory design, and usability evaluations, to develop products that support safe, responsible, and human-centered experiences on social media. They excel at cross-functional partnerships and approaching product development and strategy from a holistic point of view that takes into account user, business, and other stakeholder needs.
Kathryn Henne, Australian National University (she/her): Dr. Henne is Professor and Director of RegNet, the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance, where she leads the Justice and Technoscience Lab. Her research is concerned with how to regulate technology to promote health and public safety. Her recent work has examined anti-violence apps, automated decision-making in welfare delivery systems, and predictive policing technologies.
Patrick Gage Kelley, Google: Kelley has worked in Privacy, Counter-Abuse, and Trust & Safety within Google. He has worked with at-risk users (content creators, people on political campaigns, youth) and recently is exploring how AI can be responsibly designed and understood to help people make safer AI decisions.
Shalaleh Rismani, McGill University (she/her): Shalaleh Rismani is a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University and Mila in Montreal, Canada. Her research leverages perspectives and framework in the intersection of safety engineering, responsible AI development and human-computer interaction to develop systematic approaches to evaluating and mitigating harms from algorithmic systems.
Renee Shelby, Google Research (she/her): Dr. Shelby studies the social impacts of technology, particularly the relationships between social inequality, technology design, and governance. Her work focuses on identifying potential harms and modes of harm reduction from algorithmic systems and AI as well as the experiences of people in different historically marginalized communities.
Renwen Zhang, National University of Singapore (she/her): Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media. Her research focuses on technology-mediated communication and human-machine communication, with a particular emphasis on social support, well-being, and mental health.