Live from SXSW Edu 2023: Research Storytelling in The Digital Age

Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is an educator, researcher
and youth advocate with two decades of instructional and
administrative experience in public schools, universities and
non-profit organizations across the United States. Bishop
currently teaches on the faculty of the City University of New
York and the University of San Francisco. She is Co-Founder of
Global Turning Points, an international consulting collective
based on the praxis of critical pedagogy. Bishop’s writing
includes her 2015 “Becoming Activist: Critical Literacy and Youth
Organizing” and her 2018 “Embodying Theory: Epistemology,
Aesthetics and Resistance“ which she created in collaboration
with artist Tamsen Wojtanowski. She has two new books expected
out in 2022 and 2023. Dr. Bishop holds a Ph.D. in Education:
Language, Literacy and Culture and has been featured in numerous
articles on youth activism, civic engagement and voting including
on Good Morning America, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider and
PolitiFact. Find her online @DrBishopDigital. 


An artist by training, Dr. Kylie Peppler is a
professor of Informatics & Education at University of
California, Irvine where she designs and studies creative
educational technologies together with industry partners. She
holds a Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from UCLA, where she was part of
the NSF-sponsored team that designed and studied the Scratch
platform, which has grown to over 93 million users. Her research
group, the Creativity Labs, is part of UCI’s Connected Learning
Lab, which reaches over 8,000 newsletter subscribers and a
website which averages over 11,500 views per month. Recent
projects include partnerships with Merlyn Mind on the innovative
uses of AI in classrooms, and the development of new XR solutions
with Purdue University for the future manufacturing workforce.
Her work has been consistently supported by a range of
foundations, federal and industry partners, including the Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Wallace
Foundation, Google.org, US Department of Education, Boeing, Best
Buy, Fossil Foundation, GAP Inc., and National Geographic.


Dr. Sangita Shresthova is a writer, researcher,
thinker, speaker and doer. She is an expert in mixed research
methods, online learning, media literacies, popular culture,
performance, new media, politics, and globalization. She is
currently the Director of Research and Programs and Co-PI of the
Civic Paths Group based at the University of Southern California,
where her current work is focused on the civic imagination.
Sangita is one of the creators of the Digital Civics Toolkit
(digitalcivicstoolkit.org), a collection of resources for
educators, teachers and community leaders to support youth
learning. Her own artistic work has been presented in creative
venues around the world including the Pasadena Dance Festival,
Schaubuehne (Berlin), the Other Festival (Chennai), the EBS
International Documentary Festival (Seoul), and the American
Dance Festival (Durham, NC). She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA’s
Department of World Arts and Cultures and MSc. degrees from MIT
and LSE. She received her BA from Princeton University.​She is
also a faculty member at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Social
Change in Austria.​


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