Tuesday, February 7, 2023
4:00 PM 5:30 PM
Lydia X. Z. Brown’s work focuses on unearthing, examining, and challenging the intersectional harms of algorithmic technologies on disabled people living at the margins of the margins. From algorithmic worker management, credit decisions, threat assessment, health predictions, decision-making technologies, and surveillance apparatuses, algorithmic and automated technologies increasingly have an outsized impact on disabled people, particularly disabled people from multiply-marginalized communities. Lydia’s work calls attention to the particular ways in which algorithmic technologies serve to exclude disabled people from public participation and social integration, exacerbate existing hyper-surveillance of and attendant harms to disabled people, and manufacture new means of regulating disabled people’s lives.
Accessibility
CART will be provided. Please email Evan Hoye ([email protected]) with access questions and concerns.
Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work focuses on interpersonal and state violence against disabled people at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, faith, language, and nation. Lydia is Policy Counsel for Privacy & Data at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where their work focuses on algorithmic harm and disability discrimination. Lydia is also an adjunct lecturer in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University, as well as an adjunct professorial lecturer in American Studies in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. They are co-president of the Disability Rights Bar Association and Disability Justice Committee representative on the National Lawyers Guild board.