Andrew W. Smith, M.S., is a developer, designer, and writer. His work brings immersive and interactive technologies such as games, natural language processing, quantum computing, AR, and VR into conversation with topics such as memory, environmental futures, Black life, and virtual worlds.Andrew has held residencies and fellowships with Snap Inc., the University of Maryland College Park, and Amherst College. He was part of the inaugural 2024-20245 cohort of Arts for All Faculty Fellows at UMD. Additionally, he currently works with the Immersive Realities Labs for the Humanities, an independent...

Christin Washington is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies and a Flagship Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the Assistant Director of the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research and design lab. Christin’s scholarship stretches media and modes of digital storytelling (i.e. photography, photogrammetry, laser scanning, virtual reality) to articulate cultural memory across black geographies. Her current research project, 9Night and Good Mourning, uses speculative mapping to look at Caribbean women’s lives in the context o...

Elizabeth Murice Alexander is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Digital Humanities and Digital Studies at African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), housed in the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park.Elizabeth designs and develops across digital & print media, with a critical and creative research practice focused on Black women’s technoculture, the embodied lifecycles of cultural and personal data, and the Southwest Side of Chicago. They held a Mellon Editorial Fellowship at Northwestern University Press, co-...