Lilly Irani is an associate professor of communication at University of California San Diego, an ex-Google engineer and an organizer with Tech Workers Coalition. At UC San Diego, she is faculty director of the UC San Diego Labor Center and faculty in the Design Lab. She spends her time studying how technologies and tech companies affect people, their work and neighborhoods, and working towards better technology futures through design, policymaking and organizing. She is author of “Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India,” which won the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for Science, Technology, Engineering, or Medicine of the American Anthropological Association and the 2020 Outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association. She is also co-author, with Jesse Marx, of “Redacted.”
