The Pandemicene Podcast aims to produce knowledge that can help all of us – scholars and scientists, students and activists – imagine and enact just futures both in our home state of California and in our communities worldwide.

Airing on KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM, on Sunday, November  22nd, 6:30 – 7 pm PST.

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On August 24th, 2020, we spoke with Erin McElroy about housing justice, landlord tech and surveillance, and the role of AI in this new world shaped by the pandemic. McElroy earned their doctorate of Feminist Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and is now a postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s AI Now Institute. Due to the urban soundscape of New York City, we decided to edit out some of the segments from this Zoom interview that were important but too challenging to hear clearly, including McElroy’s introduction to the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. In early 2021, SJRC will help McElroy celebrate the launch of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s newly released book: Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance, published by PM Press.

Guest Bio:

Erin McElroy is a postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s AI Now Institute, and cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Erin earned a doctoral degree in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on the politics of space, race, and technology in Romania and Silicon Valley, and is an editor of Radical Housing Journal.

Additional Pandemicene Project Information

Find more information on the COVID-19 Pandemicene’s project page.

The SJRC has a robust network of local and international public health experts, scholars, and practitioners leading the way with collecting resources for teaching about COVID-19, writing open response letters, and calls to action, and organizing and participating in online events.