I’m Kenia D. Hale
a writer, community worker, and multidisciplinary artist
Kenia currently works at Logic(s), a Black, Queer, Asian critical technology magazine, and recently finished teaching “Reading into the Past / Writing into the Future” at the School of Poetic Computation.
From 2021 - 2023, Kenia was an Emerging Scholar Research Fellow at Princeton University, where she investigated liberatory technologies, digital marronage, and critical technological ecologies at the Ida B. Wells Data Justice Lab. She has presented her research at many conferences including 4S in Cholula, Mexico, Data 4 Public Good, and the United Nations “Artificial Intelligence to support Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development” Conference in Doha, Qatar. She has worked as an Environmental Justice in Technology Fellow at Earth Hacks and a lead teacher at The Octavia Project.
Kenia is the founder and editor in chief of Porch Water Press, a radical Black, queer, women run press based in Lenapehoking. She also plays bass in her Black, queer, punk band Speakeasy.
Selected Works:
- “Data That Chills” - The Hopper (Best of the Net Nomination)
- “Deliverance” - Literary Cleveland
- “Mycelial Kinship” - Reading into the Past / Writiting into the Future, Seeds for a New Pattern
- “Migration and Black Futurity” - The Yale Historical Review
- “There’s a Fire in the Building” - Voice acting for Deb, Jersey House Studios
- Turtle Trouble, Programmer - Jersey House Studios