[Air-L] AoIR2025 Student Paper Award

[AoIR Association Coordinator]

AoIR is delighted to announce that the 2025 AoIR Student Paper Award has
been awarded to Lucia Fernanda Mesa Velez for her paper “Rupturing ‘AI for
Good’: A Feminist Decolonial Theoretical Framework for Analyzing AI
Interventions in Gender-Based Violence.
<https://www.conftool.org/aoir2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=241#paperID1050>”
You can hear Lucia’s paper at #AoIR2025 in Niterói on 16 October at 4:00
p.m. in the session Rethinking AI.

Lucia’s paper has been recognised for the author’s innovative use of
feminist and decolonial perspectives to build a critical framework for
analyzing “AI for Good” interventions addressing gender-based violence
(GBV). The significance of this critique stems from her accurate perception
that current “AI for Good” initiatives require deeper examination, given
their impact on vulnerable people, communities, and territories worldwide.

We also recognize Tomás Guarna with an Honorable Mention for his
paper, “Against
the Tide: Startup Cultures in Mexico City and Buenos Aires
<https://www.conftool.org/aoir2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=254#paperID963>”
You can hear Tomás’s paper on 16 October at 11:00 a.m. in the session
Mapping and Cartographing Cities and Cultures.

Tomás’s paper focuses on a young generation of entrepreneurs in Latin
America, specifically in Mexico and Argentina, navigating the startup
ecosystem amidst a global market recession. His comprehensive ethnographic
approach is based on five weeks of fieldwork in Mexico City and Buenos
Aires, including observations at conferences and events, and meetings with
startup entrepreneurs, venture capital partners and staff, startup
accelerator leaders, and business school academics.

Congratulations to Lucia and Tomás! Be sure to check out their sessions at
the conference.