Maurika Ariane Smutherman

Maurika Smutherman is a PhD student in the department of Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at North Carolina State University (NCSU) where she serves as the graduate extension assistant for the NCSU Libraries’ Digital Media Lab. Her research focuses on intersections between materiality, critical making, and Black feminist technoculture and digitality. Specifically, she explores how Black feminist knowledge systems and engagements with technology are integral to gaining a deeper understanding of the ways empathy and care produce more liberatory, inclusive, and equitable strategies for digital media design and production.