Digital Alchemy ICA Productions

This episode features Alice Wong in conversation with Moya Bailey. Alice shares her experience with disabled activism in the digital era and how the advent of the internet enabled Alice to find community and the tools to create her platform. She elaborates one of her digital campaigns #HighRiskCA, which emerged during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021. Alice also suggests how academics can be accomplices to disabled activists.

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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Alice Wong

Sponsors
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Alice Wong
Founder and Director of Disability Visibility Project
Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility
Instagram: @disability_visibility
Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com
Newsletter: https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io

Copy and Audio Editor:  
Dominic Bonelli 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Alex Hanna in conversation with Professor Moya Bailey. Dr. Hanna discusses how the work of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) has activist applications in seeking to mitigate sociotechnical harms and algorithmic injustice. Dr. Hanna further elaborates on how young professionals interested in AI and machine learning can consciously navigate the industry and work to reconstruct harmful sociotechnical frameworks.

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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Alex Hanna

Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist | Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President | Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Alex Hanna
Director of Research | Distributed AI Research Institute 
Twitter: @alexhanna

Works Referenced in Episode: 
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (pp. 610-623).Spade, D. (2015). Normal life: Administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law. Duke University Press.
Copy and Audio Editor:  
Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode of Digital Alchemy, academic sisters and political allies, Dr. Beth Richie and Dr. Dána-Ain Davis join Professor Moya Bailey for a conversation about their academic production and social justice work as it pertains to Black feminism, gender-based violence, reproductive injustice, abolition, and medical racism. In the spirit of digital alchemy, which Professor Bailey defines as “black women transform[ing] everyday digital media into valuable social justice magic”, Dr. Richie and Dr. Davis discuss how new technologies can serve as a tool to foster international community and function as an alternate space to continue learning and producing social justice work outside of the confines of academia. 
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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Beth Richie 
Dána-Ain Davis 

Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Beth Richie 
Head of the Department of Criminology, Law & Justice | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
LAS Distinguished Professor & Professor of Black Studies | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 
University of Illinois-Chicago

Dána-Ain Davis
Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Psychology & Director and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies | Graduate Center
Director | Center for the Study of Women and Society 
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 

Works Referenced in Episode: 
Bryant-Davis, T. (2019). The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema [Audio Podcast].
Lindley, T. (2022). Black Women's Dept. of Labor with Taja Lindley [Audio Podcast].
Copy and Audio Editors:  
Bennett Pack 
Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

Colleagues Moya Bailey and Sarah J. Jackson discuss their past, present, and future collaborations and the importance of working together in interdisciplinary studies. Sharing some stories of past endeavors and progress on future goals, Moya and Sarah share their thoughts on professional collaborations while maintaining their friendship.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Sarah J. Jackson
 
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication

More from the host & speakers: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir

Sarah J. Jackson
Presidential Associate Professor; Co-Director | Annenberg School for Communication; Media, Inequality & Change Center
University of Pennsylvania
Twitter - @sjjphd

Works referenced in episode: 
Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Welles, B. F. (2020). # HashtagActivism: Networks of race and gender justice. Mit Press.
Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2018). # GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online. New Media & Society, 20(5), 1868-1888. 
Copy and Audio Editors:
Daniel Christain
Jo Lampert
Bennett Pack

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Moya Bailey speaks with Timnit Gebru about how her personal life, being born and raised in Ethiopia, and her professional life, most recently working at Google, has prepared her for her most recent efforts as Founder of the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute. She describes DAIR’s goals to build a distributed, interdisciplinary and diverse coalition to collectively identity and combat algorithmic bias against marginalized communities.

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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Timnit Gebru

Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Timnit Gebru
Founder & Executive Director | The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Cofounder, Black In AI
Twitter: @TimnitGebru
Works Referenced in Episode: 

Cade Metz and Daisuke Wakabayashi (December 3, 2020). Google researcher says she was fired over paper highlighting bias in A.I. New York Times, December 3, 2020.
Raji, I. D., Gebru, T., Mitchell, M., Buolamwini, J., Lee, J., & Denton, E. (2020, February). Saving face: Investigating the ethical concerns of facial recognition auditing. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 145-151).

Copy and Audio Editor:  
Dominic Bonelli 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

This episode features Miya Osaki in conversation with Professor Moya Bailey. Osaki shares her experiences working in systems of care including healthcare and the DIY music scene. These experiences led her to chair the Design For Social Innovation MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. Here, Osaki motivates her students to investigate the impact of health on people, systems, and environments within their work. Osaki relates Digital Alchemy to her work in that digital spaces create communities, but there aren’t enough spaces to allow for transparency and agency in these systems.

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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Miya Osaki

Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Miya Osaki
Chair | Design For Social Innovation MFA program
School of Visual Arts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miya-osaki-1a319430
Twitter: @MiyaOsaki

Copy and Audio Editor:  
Dominic Bonelli
Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown