Hibby Thach is a PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. She researches content moderation, live-streaming, and queer and trans people of color's online experiences with various platforms and technologies. She primarily uses interview and digital ethnographic methods, valuing and centering the narratives of multi-marginalized people like her. Her work engages with HCI, Communication and Media Studies, and Content Creator studies.

As part of her work on live-streaming, she runs a Twitch channel and streams variety content. Currently, she is interested in identity exploration and identity management in indie VTubing. She is also a graduate student coordinator for the Trans Studies Research Workshop at the University of Michigan.

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Pronouns

she/her

Areas of interest

live-streaming, content moderation, content creation, trans technologies, vtubers

Education

Master of Arts in Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago 
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Temple University