Xiaowei Wang
Xiaowei R. Wang is an artist, writer, organizer, and coder. Their work centers community driven tech and the importance of care in organizing for a more just future. Their collaborative project FLOAT Beijing created air quality-sensing kites to challenge censorship and was an Index Design Awards finalist. Other projects have been featured by the New York Times, BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. Their most recent project, The Future of Memory, was a recipient of the Mozilla Creative Media Award. They are the author of the book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech In China’s Countryside. Currently, they are one of the lead stewards of Logic School, an organizing community for tech workers, an embedded organizer for Collective Action in Tech, and a Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg.