Selene Yang Rappaccioli
Selene Yang is a Latin American queer feminist, community organizer, mapmaker, and co-founder of Geochicas. She holds a PhD. in Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. Research Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab and Stanford University. Selene is also part of the FAIR network for feminist AI, Tierra Común for data Decolonization, and the Communication and Public Policy Research Center of the School of Communication of the UNLP. She currently works at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Session
Geochicas turns 10 this year. For five of those years, we have built the Atlas 8M: a community-governed, open-source archive of 3,183 georeferenced feminist mobilizations across 63 countries. This talk presents the project's technical evolution and current work toward automated data collection and open visualization infrastructure.