User:SarahCiston

💌 hey, y'all found me!

I'm Sarah Ciston (they&she), a poet-programmer who loves building community through creative-critical code. Currently, I'm a PhD Candidate at USC's Media Arts and Practice division and a Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities. I'm also an Associated Researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and recently a Google Season of Docs Mentor with Processing Foundation's P5.JS. My research investigates how to bring intersectionality to artificial intelligence by employing queer, anti-racist, anti-ableist, and feminist theories, ethics, and tactics. I also lead Creative Code Collective—a student community for co-learning programming using approachable, interdisciplinary strategies. My creative-critical code-writing projects include an interactive poem of the quantified self and a chatbot that tries to explain feminism to online misogynists. I did my MFA in Literature from UC San Diego and was once named one of San Francisco Weekly 's "Best Writers Without a Book." I am white, queer, and from the Ozarks, which is the ancestral home of the Osage and Kickapoo Nations. My favorite word is "we."

You can reach me almost everywhere @sarahciston 💜