In its second year, the Human Rights & Technology Program has awarded seven research fellowships to MIT students, with a total of ten fellows, six undergraduate and four graduate students.
Human Rights & Technology Fellows, 2019-2020
Undergraduate students
- Alexa Jan (Comparative Media Studies) Will examine the use of technology in monitoring migrants at US.-Mexico border
- Max Raven, Natasha Hirt, Peyton Shields, Evan Hostetler[1] Social media promoting activism for workers’ rights
- Alia Rizvi (DUSP ‘22) How can video games be designed to promote social justice
Graduate students
- Kevin Lee (DUSP) How Micronesian migrant workers use Facebook groups to deal with labor exploitation
- Prathima Muniyappa (Media Arts & Sciences) Promoting the survival of indigenous knowledge and culture through climate adaptation
- Anika Ullah (Media Lab) Producing new knowledge about human rights issues encompassing agricultural biotechnologies, to foster GM crop risk management
- Lizzie Yarina (DUSP) Examining how Dutch aid—technical strategies for climate adaptation—in Vietnam impact human rights
[1] Respectively, Mechanical Engineering ’21, Architecture ’22, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ’22, Mechanical Engineering ‘22
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