Hello, I’m Sasha Costanza-Chock, scholar, media maker, troublemaker. My pronouns are they/them/their or she/her/hers. I’m interested in social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice, among many other things.
Here's a short bio about me:
Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (http://codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha’s first book, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press in 2014, and is freely available for download at https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/out-shadows-streets. They are a board member of Allied Media Projects (AMP); AMP convenes the annual Allied Media Conference and cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative and collaborative world (https://alliedmedia.org).
