Presenter

Payton Croskey is a tech justice scholar designing liberatory tools for a more just world. She is a Ph.D. student at UCSB, a 2025 recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a 2025 Processing Foundation Fellow. Her research sits at the intersection of AI, AR, and Afrofuturism, developing theoretical frameworks and technical methodologies for ethically collecting, storing, and modeling Black cultural data in AI and AR. She aims to enable Black and Brown communities to secure their place in the future historical record, ensuring that emergent technologies elevate and empower these groups by reflecting their histories.