Hometown / Country: San Francisco, California

Area of Research / Interest: race, gender, & technology; decolonial computing, critical technical practice, epistemic cultures, computing education

Undergraduate Education Institution: California Polytechnic State University

Undergraduate Major: Computer Science

Biography: Medina-Kim synthesizes their original training in computer science with the sensibilities of feminist & anti-racist science and technology studies (STS) to study the cultures and practices of computer science & engineering. Their dissertation elucidates the dynamics of equity initiatives in computing education through a qualitative case study of cultural change in a university computing department. This includes the opportunities produced by the epistemic culture of computing as well as the social organization of computing and the university. Their research also explores algorithmic justice, decolonial computing, artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, and social justice pedagogy in computing (BPC). Medina-Kim is an awardee of the California State University's Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) and the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). 

Email: meding2@rpi.edu