Amelia Winger-Bearskin
1979–
Amelia Winger-Bearskin (b. 1979; Rochester, New York) uses artificial intelligence to positively impact communities and the environment. She is the founder of the AI Climate Justice Lab and the Talk to Me About Water collective. Winger-Bearskin’s award-winning podcast Wampum.Codes explores an ethical framework for software development based on Indigenous values of co-creation.
In 2022 she was awarded a Sundance Art of Practice Fellowship for SKY WORLD/CLOUD WORLD. In 2018 she served as a delegate at the summit Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion through Museums hosted by the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India. Her projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Winger-Bearskin is a Banks Family Preeminence Chair of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville. She is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and an enrolled member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan, on her mother’s side and Jewish/Baháa’í on her late father’s side.
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