CodeOp Fireside Chat: Tech & Activism with Erin McElroy

Conversations from the margins of tech

About this Event 🙌

CodeOp’s SubVersions is a remote, global series of fireside chats highlighting the projects and people on the margins of tech.

Speakers from all over the world, working at the intersection of tech and sex, performance arts, music, wine, society, and innovation, will share their stories and perspectives from their fields. The entire series is free for everyone wanting to watch.

This is something for the technically curious, creatives, entrepreneurs, techies, dreamers, and leaders looking for what’s different out there. These chats won’t cover the same old clickbaity, tech talk topics. It will be a unique opportunity to discover some of the most engaging voices from marginal tech communities and spaces, and engage with a collective of people talking about some quietly game-changing stuff.

📢 Meet the Speaker: Erin McElroy

Erin McElroy is a postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s interdisciplinary AI Now Institute, researching the digital platforms used by landlords in order to surveil and racialize tenants. Erin is also cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a data visualization, critical cartography, and multi-media collective documenting dispossession and resistance struggles upon gentrifying landscapes. They earned a doctoral degree in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on the politics of space, race, and technology in Romania and Silicon Valley. Erin is also an editor of the Radical Housing Journal, working to help build international housing justice solidarities.

🔈 Meet the Moderator: Katrina Walker

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrina moved to Barcelona to study and work as a data scientist nearly 4 years ago. Now, she is the founder and CEO of CodeOp—an international tech school for women and the TGNC community.

Sign up for the latest updates on our speakers, dates, and times and join us for these intriguing and very necessary conversations about tech.

📅 When: Wednesday, 25th November (19-20.30 CET)

📍 Where: Via Zoom

🗣 Language: English

💸 Cost: Free