Team

If you wish to join the team (see openings) !

Jump to PhD students, master and bachelor students, external researchers, collaborators, alumni.

Director

Prof. Priyank Chandra

Prof. Priyank Chandra

Director - STREET Lab · Assistant Professor - Faculty of Information

  • Postdoc at University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science
  • PhD Information at University of Michigan, USA
  • MS Economics at Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India
  • BE Electronics, VTU, India

PhD Students

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Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat

PhD student - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Topics: Technology and resistance, labour platforms, social movements, caste, marginality

  • M.Phil and MA in Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • BA Honors in Political Science from Ramjas College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
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Olivia Doggett

PhD candidate - Faculty of Information and School of Environment, University of Toronto

Topics: Critical computing, migration, environmental studies, CSCW, design research

  • MI Information systems and design and UX from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • BA Honours Cultural Studies from McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez

Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez

PhD student - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Topics: Tech mediated labor, STS, care and gender technologies

  • MA in Science and Technology Studies from York University, Toronto, Canada
  • BA in Sociology and Political Science from Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Master and Bachelor Students

External Researchers

Carolyn Kim Ly

Carolyn Kim Ly

Masters - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Topics: Design thinking and race, accessibility

  • Master of Information, User Experience Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Honours BSc Mathematics and Statistics, Art History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Jaydon Brown

Jaydon Brown

Master of Information (MI), Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Topics: Social movements, Black diaspora, platform governance

  • Master of Information at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada
Marco Chan

Marco Chan

Masters Student in Human-Centered Data Science and Information Systems and Design (2nd Year)

Topics: ICTs, Transnational Social Movements, Resistance

  • Master of Information at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Bachelor of Business Administration at City University of Hong Kong
Janna Akimova

Janna Akimova

RA studying the Belarusian Social Movement

  • Bachelor of Liberal Arts (BLA), focus on Visual Studies & Psychology, The Schools of Public Engagement, The New School, NYC, USA
  • APP in Documentary Film, focus on Visual Theory, The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic

Collaborators

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Dr. Paridhi Gupta

Swiss Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Zurich

  • PhD Gender Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • MPhil Women's Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • MA Sociology at the Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Alumni

  • Gozie Nwaka, Masters, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Keith Cheng, Master, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  • Bethlehem Zebib, Ontario Ministry of Transportation
  • Alex Parent, PhD, NYU
  • Azhagu Meena, PhD, Faculty of Information
  • Moria (Masha) Piroshkova
  • Carmen Chau
  • Emily Su
  • Emily Weckend, University of Alberta