Aspen K.B. Omapang

Aspen K.B. Omapang is a PhD candidate in the Information Science department at Cornell University. Broadly, she studies the legibility of Native Peoples' to the US government and political technologies' role in Native political participation. Aspen seeks to center Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality as part of her responsibility to mālama the ‘āina (care for the land). Aspen serves on the ADVANCE Resource Coordination (ARC) Network External Advisory Committee and most recently was a sociotechnical systems intern for Intel Labs. Aspen's research is supported by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship and Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Areas of Interest: Computational Social Science, Social Media & Online Communities, Infrastructure Studies, Feminist & Queer Studies, De/Anti-Colonial Futures