Payal Arora

Full Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Why should women be in science? When will we become truly local? Who has the right to connectivity? How much is your societal impact worth? …What’s wrong with these questions? Join Payal Arora’s talk as she explores what it means to build community in a time of anti-globalism, neoliberal values, and the continued devaluation of care economies.

Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist and author of several books including the award-winning “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. She is the co-founder of FemLab.Co, a feminist initiative on the future of work. She is a Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her expertise lies in inclusive design and user experiences among low-income communities worldwide and comes with two decades of fieldwork in such contexts. Forbes named her the “next billion champion” and the right kind of person to reform tech. She sits on several boards such as Columbia University Earth Institute and World Women Global Council in New York. She is Indian, American, and Irish and currently lives in Amsterdam.