I am a Feminist, Humanist, Technologist.
I work as an Associate Professor of Global Media and Communication at the School of Journalism & Communications, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I was the co-founder of the Center for Internet & Society, India, which was forcibly shut down in early 2025, as a consequence of our challenging the government on questions of privacy, social justice, and digital safety and security. I currently run the Digital Narratives Studio (Hong Kong) - a collaborative, iterative, and provocative space to research, produce, and amplify the possibilities of hopeful action through narrative change.
I currently convene three large community practice driven projects which seek to build exchanges, solidarities, and infrastructures for communities in the Majority World, to think through the nexus of emerging technologies, gender, sexual, and climate justice, and freedom of speech and expression. I am the Principal Investigator for the :GAIN (Generative AI Network) that seeks to build anticipatory skills and languages that orient care making as the first line of defense rather than the last line of defense. I have designed and run the 'Possible AIs: Speculative Technology Institute', which equips on the ground movement builders and change makers with frameworks, concepts, and critical approaches to address and claim ownership of AI applications and practices in their on-the-ground-work.
I serve in an advisory capacity with multiple networked organisations and philanthropy organisations, creating meaningful infrastructures for sustainable investment and support in Majority World networks, around questions of gender and sexuality, and climate justice. My personal research is engaged in understanding the historicity, materiality, and alternative narratives of the current and emerging state of digital technologies. I am working on a collaborative project on 'The Technological Pandemic', that examines the present and future of coming together as personal, social, and political beings. I also frame, conceptualise, and operationalise multiple reports and studies that look at a comprehensive, bottoms-up, community-driven scouting of different aspects of digital technologies, anchoring it in decolonial and equality principles.
My work seeks to inform, inspire, and engage with communities through knowledge co-creation, adoption, trainings, and critical reflection as tools for collective action informed by radical hope. I consider my position in academia a privilege, which I hope to use to convene difficult communities, host uncomfortable dialogues, and create infrastructures for polyvocal discourse to emerge and be embedded through learning, teaching, and shifting the narratives of our collective futures.
