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Cella

@cellllla.bsky.social

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She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. cella.io

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Panels will focus on community organizing around data centers and environmental impacts of AI, featuring @tamigraph.bsky.social, @paulijllo.bsky.social, Sacoby Wilson, Udit Gupta, and reps from @pastandsup.bsky.social, @maketheroadpa.bsky.social, No Data Centers in Philly Coalition, and Protect PT!

Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit Panel 1: Community Organizing around data centers featuring Frank Arcoleo, Lancaster Stands Up, Make the Road Pennslyvania, No Data Centers in Philly Coalition, and Lauren Posey, Protect PT

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The amazing @mwoluchem.bsky.social will deliver the summit's opening keynote, "Examining the AI Factory," based on her team's ethnographic fieldwork on data center and AI infrastructure development in PA. We are also excited to announce that @senatormuth.com will deliver our closing keynote!

Poster for Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit Keynote Speaker: Maia Woluchem of Data & Society, Opening Keynote: Examining the AI Factory

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field? My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579

Screenshot of the CSCW 2025 paper "The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry"

CELLA M. SUM, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ANNA KONVICKA, Princeton University, USA
MONA WANG, Princeton University, USA
SARAH E. FOX, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Abstract: The tech industry’s shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with
tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.

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