Join the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) for an honest conversation with some of the people forging a better digital future. The event will be recorded for those who can't make it.

⏰ Thursday May 30th at 10am PDT
➡️ Register at https://lnkd.in/eSVQcTuA

Speakers:
✴️ Catt Small is a Staff Product Designer at Dropbox, game maker, and developer. She has worked with companies of all sizes including Asana, Etsy, and SoundCloud. She started programming interactive games around the age of 10 and has been going ever since. In her spare time, Catt makes awkward video games, writes, and draws artwork of all kinds. You can view her work at cattsmall.com.

✴️ Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam is an activist, artist and independant scholar from Atlanta who was one of the first people that identified the growing online threat of white nationalism and hate organizing in online spaces. They continue this work in the fediverse.

✴️ Rudy Fraser is a technologist, community organizer, and founder of Blacksky Algorithms, where he builds decentralized social media infrastructure that prioritizes community-driven safety, data ownership, and interoperability. As a Fellow at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, he advances research and development on technology that empowers marginalized communities, particularly Black users.

✴️ Roland X. Pulliam is a creative technologist with over 20 years of professional graphic design and web development experience that he has used to create experiences for clients like BMW, Toyota and the University of Belize. After founding Play Vicious in 2017, he discovered a need for more robust safety and moderation tools for independent social media platforms and created Fipamo and The Bad Space to help protect marginalized communities.