Sex workers sit at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities and make up a sizable workforce: the UN estimates that at least 42 million sex workers are conducting business across the globe. Sex workers face a unique and significant set of digital, social, political, legal, and safety risks; yet their digital experiences have received little study in the CS and HCI literature. In this talk we will review findings from a 2-year long study examining how sex workers who work in countries where sex work is legal (Germany, Switzerland, the UK) use technology to conduct business and how they have developed digital strategies for staying safe online and offline. We will then describe how these findings can inform broader conversations around internet governance, digital discrimination, and safety protections for other marginalized and vulnerable users whose experiences bisect the digital and physical.

Ed "Kingfish" Lada, Jr., President and CEO for Goodwill Keystone Area and Goodwill Keystone Area Foundation in Central and Southeastern PA, discusses how A.I. (in particular computer vision machine learning), has been explored within his non-profit organizations to modernize operations while also creating pathways to the future of workforce development. Goodwill is a $7b federated non-profits in North America that are the original social enterprise. In this session, Ed will share his journey doing R&D, Goodwill's path forward, and why it is imperative that the technology is viewed as an augmentation of the human experience, not the replacement of the human experience.