Alexandrina Agloro is a media artist, community-based researcher, and doula who believes in the possibilities of the decolonial imaginary using ancestral technologies as liberatory tools. She is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation in the Borderlands at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.
Alexandrina utilizes principles of self-determination and relevant education in her teaching and research. She teaches at university and high school levels and specializes in interactive media skill building with young people of color. She is a Director of Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM), a multiverse collaborative feminist technology organization, and the Futurist for the Latinx Pacific Archive. As a community-based researcher and participatory designer, her speculative work is anchored in lived experience. Alexandrina uses critical pedagogy and community-based research as platforms to work with institutions, community organizations, birthworkers, researchers, and artists. Right now she cares about the connections between reproductive justice; land, water, and internet sovereignty; and interactive media. Currently she’s in the process of co-developing a video game about Latinx migration to Hawai‘i with migrants, and is co-designing smart technology with birthworkers of color that will increase postpartum birth data reporting in underserved communities. Her research has received funding from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-John E. Sawyer Seminars, the Teagle Foundation, the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities, and the Voqal Fund.