Hi, I'm Nina

I study how visual media in problematic information (online hate, misinformation, scams) targets and denigrates identities, particularly marginalized ones. I dig through a lot of the internet's (visual) garbage to inform ways that we can make the internet, and the people in it, better. When I'm not doing that, I create methods and tools to help other researchers integrate visual methodologies into their work.

I am a second year PhD student at the University of Washington in Human Centered Design and Engineering and the Center for an Informed Public. I am advised by Dr. Kate Starbird and graciously supported by an NSF Fellowship.

Currently I am hunting for rumors and aesthetics around the US 2024 Presidential Election, developing visual research pipelines while exploring hate rhetoric and misinformation about the US-Mexico border crisis, and talking to people about AI Jesus slop on Facebook. You can find me on email, X, or LinkedIn!

⭐ I am on the market for Summer 2025 Research Internships! ⭐

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NEWS
November I am at CSCW in Costa Rica! I am presenting a paper on Latinidad and Tiktok along with a poster of a visual method. My slides are here.
September I will be at Trust and Safety presenting two posters, one about recent visual pipeline methods I have been developing at UW.
July Paper on Stable Difusion representative harms and visual research accepted to AIES (preprint here) AND a poster accepted to CSCW this week (preprint here).
July Excited to be on a research panel at the ICPSR Summer Workshop on the Meta Content Library!
July Thrilled to announce I am 1 of 5 students named a Herbold fellow at the University of Washington!
Jun Presented art at CVPR in Seattle, WA
May Forthcoming paper in CSCW 2024 called “We’re not all construction workers”: Algorithmic Compression of Latinidad on TikTok. I can't wait to present this in Costa Rica in November! Preprint here!
May 2 posters accepted at Trust and Safety! See folks in California in September!