About
Alexandrina Agloro is a media artist, community-based researcher, and doula who believes in the possibilities of the decolonial imaginary using ancestral technologies as liberatory tools.
She is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation in the Borderlands at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. As a 2018-2019 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, she is currently writing a book on global participatory game design in communities of color in South Africa and the United States. Her most recent game, The Resisters, was an alternate reality game she designed through participatory research with young people of color about local social movement history in Providence, RI.
Alexandrina utilizes principles of self-determination and relevant education in her teaching and research. She teaches at university and high school levels and specializes in interactive media skill building with young people of color. She is a Director of Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM) of FemTechNet, a multi-university collaborative feminist technology organization. She is the Futurist for the Latinx Pacific Archive and is working on developing a line of ovulation-tracking jewelry that is both affordable and flawlessly stylish. As a community-based researcher and participatory designer, her speculative work is anchored in lived experience. Alexandrina uses critical pedagogy and community-based research as platforms to work with institutions, community organizations, researchers, and artists. Right now she cares about the connections between reproductive justice; land, water, and internet sovereignty; and interactive media. Her research has received funding from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-John E. Sawyer Seminars, the Teagle Foundation, the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities, and the Voqal Fund.
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