Hello! My name is Kem-Laurin. I am a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Waterloo.

I am focused on the computational biases that inform the representations and misrepresentation of marginalized groups. These “biases” reveal themselves in Language systems, depicted in such discursive practices as personal information data indexing, search engines, digital visual signage and algorithmic constructions that depict digital Humans as “cohorts” with built-in bias ripe for market exploitation. My passion for this space is informed by the growing politicizing of human data, which parallels the imperialist models of colonization, it becomes ever more critical as governmental policies catch up with Big Tech, that more “independent” academic research help identify the role that computational rhetorical studies, as an evolution of Hermeneutics, can contribute through the lens of the Humanities.