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Speaking

Talks and Workshops

• Panelist and event co-organizer, “Responsible by Design: AI, Fashion, and Creative Labor,” hosted by Model Alliance, NYC Roundtable Event, September 2025.
• Workshop co-organizer, “What is Work Worth: Exploring What Generative AI Means for Workers’ Lives and Labor,” Data & Society Virtual Workshop, May 2025.
• Host and speaker, with Brian Merchant and Ed Ongweso Jr., “Fireside Chat: The Business of Generative AI and Worker Power,” Data & Society and AI Now Institute, San Francisco, January 2025. 
• Panelist, National Domestic Workers Alliance AI x Care Work Tour, San Francisco, January 2025. 
• Workshop Facilitator, “Challenging Worker Datafication: Making Connections Between Data, Power, and Worker Rights,” Conference: Strategies for Building Worker Power in the Age of AI, UC San Diego Labor Center, December 2024. 
• Workshop Facilitator, “AI and Labor Rights,” Confluence Advisors Forum: Building Ethical Tech & Responsible AI, June 2024. 
• Moderator, “Network Book Forum: Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City”, Data & Society, September 2023.
• Workshop organizer, Care & Technology Convening, Data & Society, October 2022.
• Webinar speaker, with Julia Ticona,  “U.S. Domestic Work Platforms in the COVID Crisis: Workers, Platforms, and the State”, Project EuroPlus, April 2021. 
• Lightning Talk, “Building the World We Deserve: A New Framework for Integrating Physical, Digital, and Social Infrastructure,” MozFest, March 2021. 
• Webinar panelist, “Racial Inequality In the Gig Economy,” National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) Seminar Series, October 2020.  
• Workshop co-organizer, Worker Privacy Concerns Workshop, hosted by Upturn, Data & Society, and Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology, Washington DC, July 2019.
• Participant, Women and the Future of Work Convening, Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Ford Foundation, NYC, June 2019.
• Workshop co-organizer, WIRED Media Workshop, San Francisco, April 2019. 
• Panelist, “Gender Equality at Work: The Perils and Promise of AI and Automation,” New America Better Life Labs, NYC, March 2019. 
• Panelist, “Why We Should Care about the Industry of Care,” Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) Biennial Convention, August 2019. 
• Table organizer, “Automating Bias: A Community Forum on How Computers are Making Decisions About Your Life,” NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and co-partners, NYC, December 2019.  
• Guest lecturer, Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, January 2019. 
• Webinar speaker, “What’s Gig Got To Do With It?: Algorithmic Management, Gig Work, and Organizing,” Labor Research Action Network and Jobs with Justice, October 2018.  
• Presenter, “Beyond Disruption: How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic and Ridehailing,” presented at Civil Rights, Privacy, and Technology Table at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, DC. July 2018.
• Webinar speaker, with Julia Ticona, “Technology and the Changing Nature of Low-Wage Work,” Center for Law and Social Policy, July 2018. 
• Presenter, “Mapping Inequalities Across the On-Demand Economy,” New York City Workforce Development Board Meeting, NYC, March 2018.
• Presenter, “Police Body-Worn Cameras: Negotiating Between Accountability and Privacy,”  Talks on Technology Science (ToTS) and Topics in Privacy (TIP) at Harvard University Data Privacy Lab, Cambridge, May 2016.

Academic Conferences

• Panelist, “Artificial creativity? Values and ideals of creativity as embedded in Generative Artificial Intelligence models,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 2025.
• Panelist, Disability Justice Symposium, Brooklyn Law School, NYC, March 2025. 
• Conference Workshop co-organizer, “Worker Data Collectives as a Means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities,” ACM CSCW 2024 Workshop, November 2024.  
• Panelist, with Zoe West and Sanjay Pinto, “Modeling Extraction: AI and Labor in the Fashion Industry,” Conference: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, Cornell ILR School, October 2024. 
• Panelist, with Zoe West, “From Runway Model to AI Model: Fashion Work in the Age of Generative AI,” Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Conference, June 2024. 
• Panelist, “Caring Machines: The Care Crisis and the Future of Digital Worker Surveillance,” Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work Conference, University of Massachusetts Boston, November 2023. 
• Participant, “Moving Past Emergency Responses: Care as Essential Infrastructure,” Carework Symposium, Carework Network, March 2022. 
• Participant, with Julia Ticona and Kelly Diaz, “Position paper: Socio-technical Imaginaries of the State in Platform Work in the COVID-19 Crisis & Beyond.” CHI 2021 Conference Workshop, “‘This Seems to Work’: Designing Technological Systems With the Algorithmic Imaginations of Those Who Labor,” May 2021. 
• Workshop Co-organizer and panelist, “Looking Beyond Disruption: Workshop on the impacts of Data-centric Technology in the Workplace” Data & Society, NYC, February 2019.
• Presenter, Workshop on Immigration and the Future of Work, Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility at the New School for Social Research, NYC, May 2019. 
• Panelist,  “Women in the Gig Economy: Past, Present, and Future,” Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Conference, May 2019. 
• Panelist, with Karen Levy and Solon Barocas, “Reap What You Sow? Precision Agriculture and The Privacy of Farm Data,” WeRobot 2019 at University of Miami Law School, April 2019. 
• Panelist, Symposium on Humans, Machines and the Future of Work, University of British Columbia Okanagan, British Columbia, November 2018. 
• Panelist, “What’s gig got to do with it? Algorithmic Management, Gig Work, and Organizing.” Labor Research Action Network Conference, Nashville, May 2018. 
• Co-organizer, Workshop on Labor and Automation, Data & Society, NYC, January 2017.
• Panelist, “Trusted Strangers: Boundary-work in Domestic Work Platforms in the On-demand Economy,” Reshaping Work Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, October 2017.
• Panelist, with Julia Ticona, “Trusted Strangers: Constructing Crowds of Careworkers in the ‘On‐Demand’ Economy,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, September 2017.

Podcasts/Radio

• Podcast, “AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society,” Computer Says Maybe, March 2025. 
• Podcast, “Digital Education Addressing Platform Labour Precarity,” Critical Digital Education, JAAKLAC Initiative, December 2024. 
• Podcast, “Servants to Technology”, The Gig, January 2022.
• Podcast, “Labor Organizing: The Fight for Better Conditions in Food”, Meat + Three, Heritage Radio Network, May 2021. 
• Podcast, “Warehouses Watching Every Move Workers Make,” Encrypted, Bloomberg News, 2019. 
• Radio, “Self checkout shows how much human work goes into ‘automation,” CBC Radio, March 2019.