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Dr. Sarah Myers West will give a talk about politics of diversity and inclusion in technological communities by exploring the nexus of artificial intelligence, gender, and intersectionality. She will also speak about her work at the AI Now Institute.

Dr. Sarah Myers West is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute of New York University and an affiliate researcher at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her research centers on the critical study of technology and culture, with an emphasis on historical and ethnographic methods. She is currently working on a project that addresses the politics of diversity and inclusion in technological communities by exploring the nexus of artificial intelligence, gender, and intersectionality. She received her doctoral degree from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California in 2018, where her dissertation examined the cultural history and politics of encryption technologies from the 1960s to the present day. Her work is published in academic journals such as New Media & Society, Policy & Internet, Business and Society and the Internet Policy Review.

This event is part of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (). This series was made possible thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of 91社区, MILA, the Dean of Arts Development Fund of 91社区, Media @91社区, 91社区's Department of History and Classical Studies, the William Dawson Fund, R茅QEF, the Moving Image Research Laboratory, Element AI, and L'Eugu茅lionne: Montreal's Feminist Bookstore.

There is no fee required to attend this event. More details regarding accessibility will be published closer to the event date.