{"id":170233,"date":"2025-06-24T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170233"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:59:02","slug":"paola-ricaurte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/human-social\/paola-ricaurte\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat\u2019s Reflected Online Is Not a Mirror of Who We Are in the World\u201d: Paola Ricaurte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paola Ricaurte has spent her life circling the globe, absorbing customs from one country and another, from here<\/em> and there<\/em>, learning and enriching herself through a blend of cultures. \u201cWhat\u2019s beautiful about having had experiences in so many places is that you start to take something from each one until you become a mix of many things,\u201d she says with a wide smile, after walking through her life story\u2014a journey filled with countries, experiences, her two children, and favorite foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her parents were Ecuadorian, but she was born in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia. Later, she attended high school in Barcelona, and then moved to Russia\u2014a country that left a deep impression on her thanks to \u201cits music, ballet, composers, and literature.\u201d That\u2019s where she studied journalism, though she never worked in that field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always loved math and technology. And early on, I got involved in activist movements that were tied to both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Ricaurte is a professor and researcher in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at the School of Humanities and Education<\/a> at Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey. She also coordinates the Feminist AI Research Network (FAIR), which seeks to create and sustain a feminist research agenda designed by and for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has built most of her academic and activist career in Mexico, where she now lives and became a naturalized citizen. \u201cAnd now I can\u2019t live without chile,\u201d she jokes. Throughout the interview, her sense of humor is constant, as are her big smiles\u2014and her fiery passion for human rights in the digital space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricaurte is the author of the Decolonial AI Manifesto<\/a> and co-founder of Tierra Com\u00fan<\/a>, an academic initiative for the decolonization of data. She\u2019s widely recognized as one of Latin America\u2019s leading voices pushing back against hegemonic technological systems that entrench global inequalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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