Projects

Ethics in STEM: Everyday and Relational

Case study based ethics education can be useful for developing analytical skills, but does not always translate into practice over the long term. Working with people from Philosophy, Communication Studies, and Designers who teach to STEM students, we treat acting ethically as more than individual. We encourage reflecting on daily, relational, organizational factors that shape our ethical reasoning and action. Identities, for example, are socially influenced. Ethical Identities are not build on analytical capacity alone, they form and evolve as we work with others, collaboratively or in tension. This scene is from a Design Methods Workshop at NCA 2022 where participants built interventions for their home institutions grounded in their own experiences as excluded do to discipline, age, gender, and other intersectional experiences. They left with a game plan that, if implemented, would support a more ethical environment for themselves and others.

Coastal Resource Center

Collaboration between CSUCI and B.E.A.C.O.N. that started from a collective need to continue the mission of Carmen Ramirez to build a more just, sustainable future for the Central Coast of California. Activities include grant writing, stakeholder analysis, developing project reporting, program management, coalition building, budget negotiations, achieving buy-in from departments and offices, and more.

H.O.P.E. Gardens

Unfortunately, I am too far away from Michigan to support this team as much as I would like. But, this non-profit is a passion project of mine for nearly a decade. They build gardens at schools and community centers and develop education around these spaces. Working with teachers and education professionals the learning includes excitement over STEM, art, trauma-informed education, culturally relevant food, and an expanding suite of programming.

AI Ethics

Building on the notion of ethical identities, my colleagues and I submitted an NSF ER2 grant after preliminary work looking at AI professionals in several settings. Or goal was to understand how they integrate the ethical concerns about AI that we see in popular and academic media into their depictions of their technical work. Several subquestions guide this research. The image is from a large AI conference. Using a collaborative ethnographic method we traced how responsibility to client, the AI community, environment, and broader social groups was evoked.

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