LF Murillo

LF Murillo (he/him) is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as fellow of the ND Technology Ethics Center and the Lucy Institute for Data and Society. His work has been dedicated to the anthropological study of computing with a focus on the design of common technologies for addressing social and environmental issues. LF Murillo serves as PI of SEEKCommons, guiding and integrating different components of the project.

Rebecca Hardin

Trained as an environmental anthropologist, Hardin works at the intersection of Environmental and Digital Justice, leading an open source, open access learning environment named Gala. Her digital and environmental justice work engages in knowledge partnerships and collaborative research in South Africa, France, Ethiopia, Kenya, Gabon, the U.S., and Canada. Hardin works in teams of researchers from engineering to ecology and epidemiology, making innovations more inclusive, communications more effective, and education more collaborative. Hardin serves as Co-PI of the SEEKCommons project, where she is responsible for integrating the Gala platform with the SEEKCommons Resource Hub to enable more FAIR and CAREful knowledge practices, most importantly supporting non-academic knowledge bearers' priorities and perspectives in addressing health, climate, food, energy and water challenges.

Sarah E. Rebolloso McCullough

Sarah Rebolloso McCullough, PhD creates meaningful and respectful dialogue across boundaries that typically divide—between universities and communities, activists and researchers, scientists and humanists, workers and policymakers. An expert in research culture and a seasoned connector, McCullough’s work is focused on promoting equity-based solutions to social problems. She has published on equity in bicycling, community engagement, and an assessment of transportation equity efforts in California. Her newest project studies the origins of mobility justice within a multiracial collective called the Untokening. She serves as Co-PI of the SEEKCommons project, where she contributes to the design and development of the Fellowship program.

Gerd Heber

Gerd Heber (he/him) is the Executive Director of The HDF Group, whose non-profit mission is to provide the means to organize and store large, complex data to be effectively and efficiently accessible anywhere and indefinitely. People worldwide rely on open HDF software to solve some of the most challenging data management problems. Gerd helps organize network convenings and gatherings with his technical expertise in data formats, standards, computing cloud technologies, and data management better practices.

Lane Rasberry

Lane Rasberry (he/him) is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. His interests include popular science, consumer protection, civic engagement, access to health information, clinical research, the Open Movement, data science, LGBT history, and Wikimedia projects. Lane is contributing to the distribution of project key messages through Wikipedia, FAIR data indexing through Wikidata, ethical review, and diversity recruitment through the wiki platform and its network of open science supporters.

MV Eitzel

MV's scholarship sits at the intersection of data science, participatory action research, and feminist Science and Technology Studies, employing a variety of ecoinformatic tools to understand and improve the sustainability of complex social-ecological systems. MV works collaboratively with communities to build data representations and models, supporting analysis and synthesis of community-held data as appropriate. MV also applies feminist STS lenses to modeling processes to see potential ways to make knowledge more impactful and social-ecological system management more just. MV uses contextualized mixed and integrative methods to create space for qualitative and other forms of knowledge to reside alongside quantitative analysis. For SEEKCommons, MV serves as a Co-PI responsible for organizing convenings, workshops, and training for the fellowship program.

Mayra Sánchez Barba

Mayra Sánchez Barba works as the Research Program & Policy Manager at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute. In this role, she is committed to developing more just and transformative research by working collaboratively with researchers and community members to center marginalized standpoints and unsettle dominant stories. She completed her PhD in Geography with a DE in Feminist Theory and Research Methods. Her scholarship has focused on the politics of knowledge in the making of toxic social and environmental disparities, and the ethics of everyday care work. This work draws from feminist theory, critical race theory, geographies of environmental justice, critical disability studies, and environmental humanities. More recently, she is interested in learning how we collectively cope with loss, and is inspired by indigenous knowledge and ecological science that center our interconnectedness to seek ways of living that nourish our ecologies and cultivate more livable worlds.

Matias Milia

Matías F. Milia (he/him) is a postdoctoral affiliate at the University of Notre Dame's Anthropology department and Fellow of the Open Environmental Data Project. With a Ph.D. in Social Science Research from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Mexico, he studies the entanglements of data infrastructures, environmental challenges, knowledge circulation, and future-oriented research from a translational STS perspective. Matías is involved in projects on Open Science and Knowledge Circulation with colleagues in France, Africa, and Latin America. Matías is contributing to the research part of the SEEKCommons project, helping to map the collectives of technologists, environmental researchers and frontline community members working with Open Science technologies and infrastructures.

Ed Waisanen

Ed Waisanen (he/him) received the B.A. degree in sociology/anthropology from Earlham College and the M.S. degree in natural resources and environment from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. He is currently Platform and Program Manager for the Gala open learning initiative at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability where he is focused on developing open tools and communities that support dynamic, collaborative, learning and curriculum development. For SEEKCommons, he works on module developmenent and training on open technologies for environmental research.

John Readey

John Readey (he/him) has been a Senior Architect at The HDF Group since he joined in June 2014. His interests include web services related to HDF, cloud computing, and applications that support the use of HDF and data visualization. Prior to joining The HDF Group, John worked at Amazon.com from 2006-2014 where he developed service-based systems for eCommerce and AWS. John graduated from Ohio State University with Master’s degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science. John contributes to the SEEKCommons project with development and training of Open Science technologies, such as HDF5 and Highly Scalable Data Service (HSDS).

Insha Bint Bashir

Insha Bint Bashir (she/her) is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research explores the intersection of digital surveillance, misinformation, and the erasure of archives in contexts of political conflict and settler colonialism. As a research fellow with the SEEKCommons project, Insha studies data protection and security, analyzes debates surrounding digital technologies for data sharing and protection, particularly in communities facing environmental and political challenges. She also curates the project’s public library and examines literature on issues such as CARE principles, data sovereignty, open tech, and community-based research. Through her work with SEEKCommons, Insha aims to integrate anthropological perspectives on power dynamics and local knowledge into open science practices for environmental action.