Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a communications scholar, participatory designer, and activist. Sasha is an Associate Professor of Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sasha received their A.B. from Harvard University, M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Sasha researches social movements, media, and communications technologies, and has published work about the Occupy Wall Street, the immigrant rights movement in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission, the CRIS campaign for communication rights, and media policy, among other areas. As an activist Sasha has contributed to citizen mediamedia justice projects such as VozMob, Transmission and Indymedia. Sasha has worked extensively in the political activism realm as an advocate for the Immigration Rights Movement and evaluates the success of the DREAM Act's active presence in the social realm. Sasha works with activist media networks and has always been involved with the community.

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