Organizers
“We are threads in the same tapestry, sovereign yet supported, and made stronger and brighter by each other.”
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Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, PhD (she/her),
is a feminist, interaction designer, and postdoctoral researcher at The Oslo
School of Architecture and Design, Norway. She explores feminist and speculative design of digital technologies for health and wellbeing. Marie Louise has co-organized workshops at CHI and DIS on topics of
women’s health, sexuality, futures, and more-than-human design and AI. Her recent practice engages with the
materiality of the human body and its entanglement with socio-technical-environmental ecologies. www.mljuul.com
Gopinaath Kannabiran is an ecofeminist, design educator, HCI researcher, and sexual rights activist currently
working as a postdoctoral researcher at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests include
Design for Sexual Wellbeing and Ecofeminism inspired HCI for addressing ecological issues. He has
previous experience organizing workshops at CHI and has served as a committee member for the Diversity and
Inclusion Lunch at past CHI (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) and TEI (2019) conferences. www.gopikann.wordpress.com
Simran Chopra is an ecofeminist, food equity activist, HCI researcher, interaction designer and PhD candidate
in Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. She is interested
in ecofeminist futures and her research explores participatory speculative design as an approach to look
at community-led bottom-up food systems in cities. Her prior work has focused on sustainability, critical
design and discourse of technology use in everyday life through art, design and social action. https://northlab.uk/portfolio/simran-chopra/
Nadia Campo Woytuk is a PhD student in Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm,
Sweden. Her work focuses on critical and intersectional feminist design of technologies for menstrual health and
intimate care. She has led and contributed to projects involving new media art, textiles,
software art, and postcolonial computing. She is currently interested in ecofeminist framings of the body and the
social and environmental ecologies it entangles. www.nadiacw.com
Dilrukshi Gamage is a feminist, leading a national non for profit organization "Diversity Collective" that address
gender gaps, diversity and inclusion in Tech and BPO sector in Sri Lanka. She is a postdoctoral researcher at
the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. She has prior experience organizing CHI workshops, engaged
with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in the context of HCI across borders, and also lead the
SIGCHI Colombo chapter in Sri Lanka. http://dilrukshig.weebly.com/
Ebtisam Alabdulqader is an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department at King Saud
University (KSU). She has a PhD in digital health interaction design from Newcastle University, UK, and she
is the founder of the ArabHCI community. Her current research focuses on HCI aspects of social computing,
interaction design, CSCW and community-driven research. Ebtisam is an active member of SIGCHI community
along with diversity and inclusion meetings. She is also experienced in organising CHI workshops on topics of
feminist HCI, CHI Inclusion, CHIveristy, Islamic HCI, and ArabHCI. https://ebtisamaq.com/
Heather McKinnon is a Lecturer in Interaction Design at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her
research interests lie in the cross section of Sustainable IxD, More-than-Human design, and Design Futuring. She
has a PhD in interaction design and urban informatics, which explored cultures of resource waste and frugality
within everyday domestic life in urban and regional areas of Australia. Her design research has explored how
cultural values of ecological consciousness and resource sufficiency - living well on less - are learned, experienced
and passed on to others. https://research.qut.edu.au/designlab/team/heather-mckinnon/
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Namibia University of
Science and Technology (NUST). Her research concentrates on co-designing technologies with indigenous and
marginalized communities as a means to provide alternative learning ecologies for communities and academics;
foster socio-economic agency of marginalized; enrich established research paradigms with indigenous and
marginal knowledges, and generate inclusive tech innovations. She is experienced in facilitating (on-line)
workshops at international conferences, such as CHI, promoting pluriversality and transcultural co-design. https://www.poem-horizon.eu/people/heike-winschiers-theophilus/
Shaowen Bardzell is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology in the College of Information Sciences
and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Her recent research foci include care ethics and feminist
utopian perspectives on IT, research through design, women’s health, posthumanist approaches to sustainable
design, computational agriculture and food justice, and cultural and creative industries in Asia. She has organized
several workshops at CHI, DIS, CSCW, NordiCHI, Aarhus Conference, British HCI, PDC, EPIC, and ACE on
feminism, gender, sexuality, and emancipatory politics. https://shaowenbardzell.com/
Contact email: feministecologies@gmail.com
1Reference: Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose. 2012. South Asian Feminisms: Contemporary Interventions. In South Asian Feminisms, Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose (Eds.).Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822394990