About me
Maga Miranda (she/they) is a community-engaged researcher and Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Pomona College. Her current book project, Coded Care Work: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, examines how contemporary care labor is shaped by technologies of surveillance and algorithmic control that reflect historical legacies of colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. Centering workers’ viewpoints and strategies of resistance, Maga’s work reveals subaltern practices of collective agency among Latina domestic workers and offers critical frameworks for understanding labor and technology in the 21st century. Maga holds a Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA and a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz with a double major in Feminist Studies and Community Studies. Her research has been published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, The Nation, Verso, New Left Review, and the International Journal of Communication.
RESEARCH interests
Latina Labor and Labor Organizing
Community-engaged Research
Latinx Science and Technology
Chicana/o/x futurism
Left-wing Chicana Thought
Latinx Urbanism
highlights
Artwashing, or, Between Social Practice and Social Reproduction
Artwashing & Gentrification in Boyle Heights paper, 2017
The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border
Book talk moderated by Maga Miranda featuring author Justin Akers Chacón and Bronx-based tenant organizer Yanny Guzman, 2020
The Antifada : Coronavirus and the Future of Work
A Survey of Domestic Work in the Gig Economy, 2020