Get Connected: Digital Navigators Information Session & Graduation Event
Events held April 2025
Champaign and Vermilion Counties

About
Join us in celebrating the Spring 2025 Digital Navigators cohort! This event will include a shared meal, presentation of certificates, and information session for those that might be interested in joining the Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 cohort.
The Digital Navigators Program is designed to support our communities regarding broadband equity and civic empowerment. Through the program together, we aim to learn the broadband internet options and needs you have for both your professional and personal life. Digital Navigators will learn about and be connected with local resources related to topics such as Education Development, Tax Preparation & Personal Finances, Mental Health Resources, and so much more!
You can read additional information about the Digital Navigators Program by visiting the program webpage here.
Crafting our Pluriversal Future: From Technologies of Dispossession to Technologies of Radical Care Nov. 3, 4-5PM, via Zoom & In-Person:
Room 126, 501 E Daniel St, Champaign IL


Paola Ricaurte
Paola Ricaurte is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. With Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías, she co-founded Tierra Común, a network of academics, practitioners and activists interested in decolonizing data. She participates in several expert committees, such as the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), the Global Index on Responsible AI and the Expert Group for the Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. She is a member of the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and leads the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist AI Research Network. In addition to her academic work, she participates in civil society initiatives to promote digital rights and the development of public interest technologies.