Presented at
HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled,
July 30, 2020, 9 p.m.
(60 minutes)
This talk will address how creatives, technologists, and designers challenge the inherent slant towards cis, white, heterosexual bias when planning and developing platforms, spaces, and tools to serve all communities. Morgen will explore and present options for founders, developers, and designers on how to shift perspective and challenge social and structural norms within our workspaces and collectives. By queering design and development practices, we not only change the process but the outcome, making every step of development potentially more inclusive, effective, and impactful. Morgen will outline how their startup, Thurst, had to re-imagine all aspects of our cycles of app development as well as numerous tools to create a platform for marginalized folks.
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Morgen Bromell
**Morgen Bromell** is a founder and technologist working to make tech more accessible to people of color through justice-based initiatives and tech activism. Apart from being the founder of Thurst, a dating app for the LGBTQIA+ community, they are also deeply invested in community building and documenting queer histories, particularly how queer and trans people use digital resources and online platforms to navigate our world. Morgen began their interest in studying the intersections of queer organizing and digital platforms while both a student and youth activist in Brooklyn. They were fortunate enough to learn from elders and queer trans activists from Stonewall while working at some of the more premier digital media companies and immersing themselves in the NYC startup scene.<br>
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