Kathryn is a Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist who has spent the last decade working in the tech industry. They are interested in custodial approaches to data management, interrogating systems of surveillance, and using creative technology to explore coding as a liberatory practice. Kathryn is the Campaigns and Advocacy Manager at Digital Rights Watch, where they champion a human rights based approach to privacy and online safety.

Kathryn’s creative practice explores the intersection of activism, futurism, and our relationship with machines. Their poetry has appeared in Cordite, Red Room Poetry, Running Dog, and Best Australian Poems. Their short stories have been published in various anthologies, including the blak speculative fiction anthology This All Come Back Now.

Acknowledgement of Country
Arts House, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands we live and work on, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Dharawal, and Whadjuk Noongar peoples. We extend our respects to their Elders past and present. We extend this acknowledgment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences and communities, and First Nations peoples globally.