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Team

Project Team

Lead Artist

Erika Tsuchiya-Bergere

Media Artist and Producer based in Philadelphia area. Former Lead Teaching Artist for Easten State Penitentiary’s Hidden Lives Illuminated, working with incarcerated filmmakers at SCI Chester and Riverside Correctional for women, producing 20 short animated films for large-scale public projection.

Writing Mentors

Gabriela Alvarado

Isabel Casares

Junior at the University of Pennsylvania, originally from New York City, Currently studying English and Political Science with the hopes of becoming an attorney one day.

Kinjal Dave

Kinjal Dave is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She is a member of the abolitionist assembly Police Free Penn and P.O. Box 34. She is a graduate fellow at the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication (CARGC), and an affiliate of the Data & Society Research Institute, the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies. Regrettably, she can be found on Twitter (@kinjaldave7).

Project Coordinator

Kinjal Dave

Kinjal Dave is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She is a member of the abolitionist assembly Police Free Penn and P.O. Box 34. She is a graduate fellow at the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication (CARGC), and an affiliate of the Data & Society Research Institute, the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies. Regrettably, she can be found on Twitter (@kinjaldave7).

Web Developer

Anastasia Hutnick

Anthropology Major, Graduated from School of Arts and Sciences in 2020

Faculty Advisors

Jessa Lingel

Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and core faculty in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Research interests include digital inequalities and technological distributions of power.

Whitney Trettien

Assistant Professor of English - Researches the history of the book and other text technologies from print to digital. Her work is invested in exploring the past to better understand our present media environment.

Project Support

Stewart Varner

Managing Director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities - Stewart is passionate about helping humanities scholars take advantage of digital tools and techniques but also about empowering them to be critical users and consumers of technology. He is also excited about the potential of digital tools to make humanities scholarship more dynamic and accessible for people outside academia.