Alexandrina Agloro lives her life in service of healing, protecting, and preserving communities of color. She is a media maker, a community-based researcher, and a full spectrum birthworker who leverages the power of community knowledges and ancestral technologies towards a future where liberation is the anchor. Right now she cares about how novel technologies can be used in service of reproductive justice and self-determination in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.
Alexandrina is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation in the Borderlands at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and Affiliate Faculty with The Design School at Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Alexandrina co-directs Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM), a multiverse collaborative feminist technology organization. She is the Futurist for the Latinx Pacific Archive, a digital resource for documenting Latinx migration to Oceania and collecting the disappearing cultures of aquatic borderlands in the face of climate change. She is the research advisor to the Birthworkers of Color Collective, and sits on the advisory of Parteras de Maíz, an organization for birth advocacy and traditional community birth.
She has held a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Voqal Fund Media Ideation Fellowship. Alexandrina was named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-John E. Sawyer Seminars, the Teagle Foundation, and the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities.
Currently she’s co-developing a video game about Latinx migration to Hawai‘i with migrants, and is co-designing smart technology with birthworkers of color that will increase postpartum birth data reporting in underserved communities.
Alexandrina has a PhD and MA from the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, an MA from the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, and an AB from Brown University. She has full spectrum birthworker training with Shafia Monroe and the Birthworkers of Color Collective and has completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training at Yoga Kula in Berkeley, California.