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Patricia Garcia

Patricia Garcia

Associate Professor of Information, School of Information and Associate Professor of Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Email: [email protected] Phone: 734/000-0000
Office: School of Information/4544 Leinweber Comp Sci & Info Bd Faculty Role: Faculty Potential PhD Faculty Advisor: Yes Personal website News About Patricia Garcia

Biography

Patricia Garcia conducts qualitative research on the complex relationship between race, gender, technology, and justice. She is currently partnering with public libraries to study how a computational justice program model can support girls of color (ages 13-16) develop agentic computing identities. This research involves the design of computing education programs that support girls of color in situating their computing identities within broader self-concepts and in ways that highlight how the intersections of race and gender can function as sources of power, rather than simply sites of marginalization. Her other related work examines how harmful data practices perpetuate structural inequities along racialized and gendered lines, and she collaborates with data practitioners to imagine and enact more equitable data futures. Her work spans the fields of computing education, learning sciences, youth studies, and critical data studies.

Pronouns

She/Her

Areas of interest

Computing education, learning sciences, youth studies, and critical data studies

Education

Ph.D., UCLA

M.L.I.S., UCLA

M.A., University of Texas-Austin

B.A., St. Edward's University

News about Patricia Garcia

UMSI at CHI 2025. 26 April to - 1 May 2025. Yokohama, Japan. umsi.info/news.
UMSI at CHI 2025: Research, workshops, courses

UMSI research and workshops for the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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UMSI Research Roundup. Congressional Campaigns. Information Resilience. Creative Expression.
Congressional Campaigns | Information Resilience | Creative Expression: UMSI Research Roundup

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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