Hi, I’m Palashi!

I’m a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, San Diego. In June 2025, I will be joining Simon Fraser University as an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair for Technological Inclusion in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology.

Working at the intersection of Information Science, Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Studies, I study how socio-technical and cultural practices of communities and institutions/organizations are embedded in relationships of power and inequity in computing.

I think a lot about what is considered normative and what is normalized in worlds of computing, including where it comes from and how it becomes common sense. To this end, I am often pursuing alternative understandings of computing that challenge or resist such norms. I am guided by historical, material and corporeal knowledge of marginalized communities to question as well as re-imagine worlds of technology.

💡 Critical and Interpretive Studies of Technology

👩🏽‍💻 Human-Computer Interaction

🤳🏽 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

⚖️ Technology, Justice and Equity

You can contact me at palashi <dot> v <at> gmail <dot> com

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