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Aspen K.B. Omapang is a PhD candidate in the Information Science department at Cornell University. Broadly, she studies the legibility of Native Peoples' to the US government and political technologies' role in Native political participation. Aspen seeks to center Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality as part of her responsibility to mālama the ‘āina (care for the land). Aspen serves on the ADVANCE Resource Coordination (ARC) Network External Advisory Committee and most recently was a sociotechnical systems intern for Intel Labs. Aspen's research is supported by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship and Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Areas of Interest: Computational Social Science, Social Media & Online Communities, Infrastructure Studies, Feminist & Queer Studies, De/Anti-Colonial Futures

Erica is a PhD student in Information Science, at Cornell University. Her advisor is Prof. Susan Fussell. Her research focuses on understanding how communication technologies can support undergraduate student development. She is exploring how the use of CMC and online social spaces impacts the strength of relationships first-years build in their initial weeks on campus.

She received a Master of Arts in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies, Higher Education specialization, from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education in 2010, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, and a minor in Economics from Bowdoin College in 2006.

Areas of Interest: How communication technologies can support undergraduate student development; formation of bonding relationships via digital communication

Calvin is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University. His research centers on the design and development of interactive computing systems using socially-aware natural language technologies, with applications in healthcare domains. He has broad interests in philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, focusing on critical questions about interactions between technology, the natural and virtual worlds, and human behavior.