CDN Guest Lecture: Kishonna Gray
Augmenting Reality: Intersectional Tech in Digital Gaming.
Guest lecture by CDN advisory board member Kishonna Gray, Professor of Racial Justice and Technology in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship is influenced by her interdisciplinary training and grounded in critical race theory and feminist approaches to knowledge production.
She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Dr. Gray is the author/co-editor of Intersectional Tech, Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live, Woke Gaming and Feminism in Play. She also has a book currently under contract titled Black Game Studies.
Dr. Gray is a highly sought-after speaker and regularly addresses both academic and industry audiences such as at the Game Developers Conference. She is the winner of a number of awards over the years, including The Evelyn Gilbert Unsung Hero Award and the Blacks in Gaming Educator Award.