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Women, Law, Society & Technology Symposium

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The 2018 symposium on Women, Law, and Technology, brings together renowned scholars, activists, tech engineers, and policy makers to examine the ways in which technologies enhance the lives of women and girls, but also curate the spaces for sabotage, harassment, sexualization, and even the gendering of technology. Technology is a benefit, but at times also a hindrance, not only in the spaces where technologies are developed, but also at elite institutions where science and technologies are taught. This conference unpacks a broad and dynamic discourse on the intersections of sex, gender, race, and age in technology, to build a better understanding about bullying in tech; sexual sabotage, including robbing women of their work; the blind spots of algorithms; sexualizing science, and harming women with the aid of technology, including revenge pornography and other means that selectively target women for harassment.

Co-sponsored by the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and the California Women's Law Center

  

 

Participants

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  Michele Bratcher Goodwin

  Chancellor's Professor of Law
  Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
  University of California, Irvine School of Law

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  Lori Andrews

  Keynote Speaker
  University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law, Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology
  Chicago Kent Law School

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  Betsy Alegria

  Software Engineer, Solar Mosaic
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  Thea Alli

  Third Year Law Student, UCI Law and Major, United States Air Force Reserve

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  Dr. Aileen Anderson

  Professor and Director Stem Cell research Center, UCI
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  Gaia Bernstein

  Michael J. Zimmer Professor of Law, Director, Institute for Privacy Protection
  Seton Hall University
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  Shawn Marie Boyne

  Professor of Law & Co-Director J.D. Program Evaluation, Teaching, & Assessment
  Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
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  Sage Cammers-Goodwin

  Founder & Designer OOBI App
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  Danielle Keats Citron

  Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law
  University of Maryland Carey School of Law
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  Wendy Greene

  Professor, Inaugural Visiting Scholar, Center of Law, Equality, and Race, UCI Law

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  Kaaryn Gustafson

  Professor of Law, Co-director, Center on Law, Equality and Race, UCI Law
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  Tabetha Harken, MD

  Obstetrician-Gynecologist
  UC Irvine Health
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  Florence Haseltine, PhD, MD

  Emerita Scientist
  National Institute of Health
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  Marie Hicks, Ph.D.

  Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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  Nancy Kim

  "ProFlowers Distinguished Professor of Internet Studies and Professor of Law"
  California Western School of Law
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  Cynthia Lee

  Lecturer, Computer Science Department
  Stanford University
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  Colleen Murphy

  Professor in the College of Law and the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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  Priscilla Ocen

  Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Professor of Sociology
  The Graduate Center, City University of New York
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  Jennefer Russo, MD, MPH

  Medical Director and Vice President of Clinical Services, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties

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  Antwann Michael Simpkins

  PhD. Candidate, Criminology, Law, & Society, UCI