Critical AI and Design Justice: An Interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock

The following interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they) is an edited transcript from an online event that was part of a yearlong event series co-organized by Critical AI @ Rutgers and colleagues at the Australian National University (ANU). Costanza-Chock is a renowned researcher and designer known for their work on social movement networks, transformative media organizing, and design justice. She is the author of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the World We Need (MIT Press, 2020). Costanza-Chock was interviewed by Kate Henne, who directs the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU; Sabelo Mhlambi, an affiliate of the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard; and Anand Sarwate, a researcher in electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers. The introducer for the event began by asking Costanza-Chock about their own journey into working on design justice and community practice.