Ramesh Srinivasan is Director of the UC Digital Cultures Lab and a professor at UCLA who works across the world to study new technology’s interactions with diverse cultures and communities. An active contributor to the mainstream media and press, Srinivasan has worked in the middle of Egypt’s Arab Spring, with Native American and indigenous peoples across the Americas, within South Asia, and more to identify how new technologies can empower grassroots voices, equality, and the potential of democratic communication around the world.