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Building the Cyberunion: Data Practices in the Labor Movement with, with Vera Khovanskaya and Naveena Karusala

    Join us for a CHIWORK conversation on March 30 at 11:00am EST. Click here: Download Calendar Invite

    In this conversation, Dr. Vera Khovanskaya will be discussing the role of data tools in the labor movement. She will describe how labor unions and other worker coalitions make strategic decisions about the data they collect and technologies they use, and the opportunities and challenges that digital tools pose for worker organizing. Finally, the conversation will discuss the barriers to worker-led technology design and draw implications for intervention at the design, practice, and policy level to support and sustain worker-centered pathways for technology innovation.

    Speaker:  Vera Khovanskaya

    CRA/CCC Computing Innovations Postodoctoral Fellow at the University of San Diego

    Vera Khovanskaya is a Computing Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, where she is a member of the Just Transitions Initiative and the Design Lab. Her research examines the impacts of data collection in the workplace, the opportunities and challenges of data-driven approaches to worker advocacy, and the barriers to worker-centered and community-driven technology design. Her work has earned awards in venues including ACM CSCW, CHI, and DIS. She completed her PhD in Information Science at Cornell University, where she was a member of the Culturally Embedded Computing Group (CEmCom) and a member of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. She has worked in design and research at Google, Yahoo, and Intel Labs.

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