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 principal investigator of SEEKCommons project, guiding and integrating different components of the project.
Rebecca Hardin
Trained as an environmental anthropologist, Rebecca Hardin (she/her) works at the intersection of Environmental and Digital Justice, leading an open source, open access learning environment named Gala. Her work engages knowledge partnerships and collaborative research in a global context. 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 Hub to enable more equitable and careful knowledge practices, supporting non-academic knowledge bearers' priorities and perspectives in addressing health, climate, food, energy and water challenges.
Sarah E. Rebolloso McCullough
Sarah Rebolloso McCullough (she/her) 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.
Mayra Sánchez Barba
Mayra Sánchez Barba (she/her) 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.
Dorothy Howard
Dorothy Howard (she/her) is an information scientist, archivist, and open technology advocate currently pursuing an M.S. in Library and Information Science at the Pratt Institute, School of Information. She was Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, promoting open access and open data workflows in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.She has also contributed to numerous international Wikipedia programs, organized around equity and governance in Wikimedia groups, and helped design development plans for open source projects and nonprofits. Dorothy is currently working on the knowledge graph of the SEEKCommons network. She is also co-designing an openly licensed conflict resolution system for self-organized communities with a team at the University of Colorado Boulder Media Economies Lab.
Anna Sofia Lippolis
Anna Sofia Lippolis (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Bologna, Italy, affiliated with the National Research Council’s Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (Rome, Italy). Her work investigates how semantic technologies intersect with Digital Humanities research and how AI can automate knowledge-engineering practices. Through the SeekCommons project, Anna Sofia is developing a Wikidata-based data model to support a compliance-checking algorithm for the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), laying the groundwork for similar initiatives across the field.
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.
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 technologies, misinformation, and the erasure of archives in contexts of political conflict. As a research fellow with the SEEKCommons project, Insha studies data protection and security, analyzes debates surrounding digital technologies for data stewardship, particularly in communities facing environmental and political challenges. She also curates the project’s public library and examines literature on issues such as FAIR and 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 socio-environmental action.