Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist and technologist from the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma. She is the Banks Endowed Chair of AI and the Arts at the University of Florida, where she founded and directs the AI Climate Justice Lab, a research initiative that utilizes AI to support communities affected by climate emergencies, housing loss, and homelessness. The lab brings together artists, technologists, and policy leaders to co-create ethical, data-informed tools that center trustworthy AI applications, public interest storytelling, and environmental justice.
Her work as a director and principal investigator has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge, Mozilla Foundation, Public Interest Technology Fund, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Engadget Alternative Realities Prize, among others.
Amelia is also the creator of Wampum Codes, a podcast, and an award-winning ethical framework for software development inspired by Indigenous protocols. She is a former fellow of Stanford, Mozilla, and MIT’s NEW INC, and her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Exploratorium. Through art, code, and collaboration, she builds systems of care, resiliency, and imaginative possibility.