Tigist Shewarega Hussen

Tigist Shewarega Hussen is CCNY Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMA. Her ongoing research explores the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) from a decolonial feminist and pan-African perspective. Tigist holds a PhD in Women and Gender Studies from the University of the Western Cape (UWC).

Her work combines an interdisciplinary background with substantial expertise in feminist research. Her research explores the intersection of African and decolonial feminist perspectives on technology and violence, mainly technology-facilitated violence, envisioning African feminist futures and fostering digital movement-building. Her doctoral research offers an in-depth analysis of a pan-African constellation of political energies, knowledge production, and African feminist discourses in movement-building within the digital age. It sheds light on the complex movement-building practices and provides insights into how activists engage with digital counter-public spaces.

Since 2018, Tigist has been the feminist research lead for the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN), a collective of technology researchers from the Global South affiliated with the Association for Progressive Communication (APC). FIRN brings together feminist technology researchers from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Latin America.

Africa AI Ethics: Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA