The 2024/2025 Cohort of ICDE Research Fellows
Please join us in welcoming our new research fellows and Affiliate Faculty, who will be collaborating with the Institute over the next 12 months. We’re looking forward to a productive year, with highlights including our anniversary symposium on June 8th and 9th in New York City, and the Digital Africa Rising PCC conference from November 6th to 8th in Mombasa, Kenya.
- Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart
Ph.D. student, University of Vigo
Navigating Political and Economic Realities Through Governance at CoopCycle - Andrea Peña Calvin
Ph.D. student in computer science, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Cooperative DAOs Shift Management from Hierarchies to Networks - Cecilia Muñoz Cancela
Professor, cooperativist, and Ph.D. student, National University of Quilmes
Coding for a Fairer World. The Chasqui Platform Story - Jared Mark Matabi
Ph.D. student, Cooperative University of Kenya
Shaping the Future of E-Hailing in Kenya - Josie West
Ph.D. in digital humanities, King’s College London
Advancing Alternative Digital Futures for Online Sex Work - Katarzyna Cieslik
Assistant Professor, University of Manchester
The Need for Collective Action for Digital Tractor Lending Platforms in Ghana - Maïmonatou Mar
Ph.D. in chemistry; social justice advocate, and innovative leader
Why French Nannies Are Building Their Own Platform Cooperative - Michelle Lee
Ph.D. student in sociology, Northwestern University
Cooperatives for All? Refugees in the Platform Economy - Stefan Ivanovski
Ph.D. student, Cornell University
Why Worker Cooperatives in the Tech Sector? - Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
Postdoctoral researcher; Panteion University of Athens
Charting the Course to a Commons-Oriented Economy with Open Cooperativism
Please also welcome the 2024-2025 ICDE affiliate faculty:
- Damion Jonathan Bunders
Assistant Professor, Governance of Urban Digitalization - Tim Christiaens
Assistant Professor of Economic Ethics, Tilburg University - Thomas Daum
Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg - Virginia Doellgast
Anne Evans Estabrook Professorship of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution, Cornell University’s ILR School - Ifigeneia Douvitsa
Lecturer, Hellenic Open University - Antonio Fici
Associate Professor of Private Law, University of Roma Tor Vergata - Javier Arroyo Gallardo
Associate Professor in Computer Science, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Mark Graham
Professor of Internet Geography, Oxford Internet Institute - Esther N. Gicheru
Director, Institute of Co-operative Development, Co-operative University of Kenya - Jessica Gordon-Nembhard
Author, Professor, John Jay College, City University of NY - Raz Godelnik
Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management, The New School - Samer Hassan
Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Faculty Associate, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center - Marisa Jahn
Assistant Professor of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design - Denise Kasparian
Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires - Vasilis Kostakis
Professor, Tallinn University of Technology - Johanna Mair
Professor, Hertie School; Co-Director, Stanford University’s Global Innovation for Impact Lab - Isaac K. Nyamongo
Scholar and Deputy Vice Chancellor, The Co-operative University of Kenya - Simon Pek
Associate Professor of Business and Society, University of Victoria - Facundo Picabea
Senior Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET); Institute for the Study of Science and Technology, National University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Mia White
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, The New School for Public Engagement - Jen van der Meer
Co-director, Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative