Sarah Appedu, M.S. LIS (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University. She received her Master’s in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a former academic library worker. Her backgrounds in philosophy, critical cultural studies, and library and information science inform her current research on the complex intra-actions between technology, human beings, society, and the natural world and their manifestations in the scholarly and professional fields of LIS. She takes a critical post-humanist approach to analyzing discourses around AI technologies and how these discourses shape the potential of our imaginations to create new, more just worlds.
Sarah is one of the founding members of the iSchool’s CAIRE Lab where she participates in leading and supporting critical research projects and discussions around AI and other emerging technologies. She is also one of the inaugural ALISE Leadership Development Interns.
Research Areas: Library and Information Science, Critical Data & Technology Studies, LIS Education, Social Justice, Artificial Intelligence