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).
