Eden Segbefia

Eden Segbefia (they/them) is the Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for the Digital Humanities Center. Eden received their BA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a concentration in Feminist/Intersectional Science and Technology Studies from Barnard College where they were a Mellon Mays Undergraduate fellow, recipient of the Bessie Ehrlich prize for their senior thesis, and awarded the Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Award for Design and Production. Eden's research explores machine consciousness tests centering themes of kinship and animacy as they relate to Christian-colonialism as a core tenet of capitalism. By allowing their own conceptions of time and urgency to be reconfigured, Eden hopes that their work creates openings for others to access their own ancestral wisdoms about the meaning of kinship.

In their free time, Eden works as a sound designer for theater and nerds out about Black folk music and brunch (particularly french toast). Eden is a proud native of Durham, North Carolina! Check out another digital humanities project-child of theirs here.

Connect with Eden here! (eden.segbefia@gmail.com)