Amy (she/her) is a researcher, feminist scholar, and Affiliate Professor of Geography, who works in the tech industry in the field of responsible AI. As public debates about the rapid development of AI tools populate news headlines and occupy government attention, Amy wants to understand how AI literacy is evolving globally and how we can effectively govern AI with clarity about tradeoffs between the benefits and risks enabled by AI powered tech. She’s also an avid fan of sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction, and cannot help but dissect characters and plots to theorize how they reflect contemporary social issues, injustices, and anxieties. A longtime member of the UW Honors community, Amy was a student in the program as an undergraduate, and then an advisor and instructor while doing her PhD in UW Geography. Her academic work is rooted in anti-racist feminist theory and activism and informed by a wide-ranging engagement with critical theory aimed at unpacking multi-valient inequities and hierarchies of power, including historical and contemporary manifestations of colonial logics of domination.

Education:

B.A., Women Studies & International Studies: Asia with Honors, UW, 2004

M.A. Geography, UW, 2010

PhD Geography, UW, 2015