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Meg Wiessner is a PhD candidate in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. She studies media, ecology, and the built environment, with a special interest in the connection between computation and environmental design and in the ideas and affects underpinning this connection. Her dissertation project traces the role of digital media tools across the supply chain for architectural timber and the investments of the tech industry into systems for low-carbon wood construction.

Her broad areas of interest include environmental media studies, infrastructural and logistical media systems, race and the environment, feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies, philosophy of technology, and architectural theory. These interests and her research are informed by her years working in her hometown of Baltimore as an artist, educator, organizer, and employee for the public workforce development agency.

She holds an MSc from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where she researched the development of novel sustainable textile materials, and a BA from Fordham University, where she studied the role of ideas about nature and evolution in nineteenth century radical politics.

Meg is a proud member, organizer and former steward with GSOC-UAW 2110, the union of graduate employees at NYU, and member of Academic Workers for a Democratic Union.

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