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Yadira Sanchez is a Lecturer in Creative Computing at the University of Southampton's Winchester School of Art. With an MSc and a PhD, her interdisciplinary practice bridges arts, technology, and science, and she reframes conversations around the digital divide, community agency, and self-determination in technological decision-making. Her research foregrounds community expertise and lived experiences, focusing on co-designing technologies particularly in rural Indigenous communities of Mexico. Current projects she leads include TequioNet, which involves collective working in Latin America, providing technological education support, and Cultivating Tequiologies, aimed at developing solar-powered mesh networks for rural connectivity among neighboring communities. Yadira completed her PhD at Southampton's Social Sciences Department Web Science Institute, concentrating on community-led algorithmic ecologies and technological sovereignty. Her teaching integrates critical computing perspectives with practical programming skills and low-power computing solutions, tailored to the needs of telecommunications technologies.
University of Southampton • Southampton
Lecturer in Creative Computing at the Winchester School of Art, focusing on interdisciplinary methods to bridge arts, technology, and science.