We facilitate the exchange of pluriversal knowledges in universities in Abya Yala (the Americas), to counterpoint epistemic erasures in academia, with a focus on Indigenous and Black people and knowledges currently vivid in villages (aldeias, aldeas), quilombos, palenques, cumbes, and urban territories.
Founder and Facilitator of the Abya Yala Pluriversity, she is currently an assistant professor of science, technology and society (STS) at Virginia Tech, a university based on the lands of Tutelo and Monacan peoples.
Her research is founded on code ethnography and focused on internet governance and design, social justice and the global South. It centers the recognition of Native peoples’ knowledges and practices in internet infrastructure and counter colonial possibilities for our digital communication. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Fellowship (2023-2025) and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Challenges and Opportunities of Technology (2023-2025).
She is an Afro-descendent first-generation college student born and raised in the peripheries of São Paulo, where we now call Brazil, and the cofounder of the Research Network on Internet Governance (REDE).
The Abya Yala Pluriversity was launched in the first week of April 2024, with the Abya Yala Pluriversity Week in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, in the lands of Tutelo and Monacan people, with a series of events around the visit of Yunuen Torres Ascencio, from where we call today Cherán, México.
This initiative has received the support of the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, with funds of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.
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