CV / Resume – Lassana Magassa

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Education

PhD.

Information Science, Spring 2020 | University of Washington
Dissertation Title: “I am not computer savy”: A Look into the Everyday Digital Literacy Level of Formerly Incarcerated People Using a Novel Holistic Digital Literacy Framework
Committee: Dr. Karine Nahon (co-chair), Dr. Allyson Carlyle (co-chair), Dr. Ricardo Gomez, Dr. Michael Eisenberg

MLS

Library and Information Studies, 2007 | Queens College, City University of New York
Thesis Title: Prisons Stall in Providing Technological Access & Training to Prison Inmates: An Assessment of Prison Libraries Efforts to Prepare Inmates to Overcome the Digital Divide

Computer Science, 2003 | Saint Paul’s College, Virginia

Publications

Young, Meg, Lassana Magassa, and Batya Friedman. “Toward inclusive tech policy design: a method for underrepresented voices to strengthen tech policy documents.” Ethics and Information Technology 21, no. 2 (2019): 89-103.
Magassa, Lassana. “Applying a Community Informatics Approach as Part of Rehabilitation in US Prisons.” The Journal of Community Informatics 6, no. 3 (2011).
Magassa, Lassana, Young, Meg, and Batya Friedman. “Diverse Voices: A How-to Guide for Facilitating Inclusiveness in Tech Policy.” University of Washington, 2017.
Calo, Ryan, Tamara Denning, Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Lassana Magassa, Emily McReynolds, (2015) Augmented Reality: A Technology and Policy Primer.
Fisher, Karen E., Ann Peterson Bishop, Lassana Magassa, and Phil Fawcett. “Action!: codesigning interactive technology with immigrant teens.” In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children, pp. 345-348. ACM, 2014.
Fisher, Karen E., Ann Peterson Bishop, Philip Fawcett, and Lassana Magassa. “InfoMe@ teen design days: a multi-disciplinary, design thinking approach to community development.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes-Volume 2, pp. 25-28. ACM, 2013.
Fawcett, Philip, Karen E. Fisher, Ann Peterson Bishop, and Lassana Magassa. “Using design thinking to empower ethnic minority immigrant youth in their roles as technology and information mediaries.” In CHI’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 361-366. ACM, 2013.

Presentations

Magassa, Lassana., Knight, Alyssa., Clark, Quinton. National Digital Inclusion Alliances' Net Inclusion Conference, "Digital Inclusion, the Corrections System and Returning Residents," Portland, Oregon (February 16, 2022).
Magassa, Lassana. Advanced Topics in Librarianship, " Incarcerated Peoples’ Fluency with Digital Technologies and Digital Spaces,” School of Information Sciences, University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (April 22, 2021).
Magassa, Lassana. The Business of VR and AR, “Seeking Diverse Perspectives in VR/AR Development,” Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University (March 10, 2021).
Magassa, Lassana. World Information Architecture Day 2019 Conference, “Information Architecture in Artificial Intelligence,” Seattle, WA, (February 23, 2019).
Magassa, Lassana. Partnership Annual Meeting of the Partnership on AI, “The Diverse Voices Method in Action,” San Francisco, CA, (November 15th, 2018).
Fisher, Karen; Magassa, Lassana. iConference 2016, “Teen Design Day on Co-Designing Technology to Support Social Justice with Free Library of Philadelphia + iConference Interactive Peer Debriefing,” Phildephia, PA, (March 23, 2016).
Fisher, Karen.; Fawcett, Philip., Magassa, Lassana., Bishop, Anne. i3 Conference 2013, “Info mediaries: How immigrant and refugee youth help others through information and technology,” Robert Gordon University - Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, (June 27, 2013).
Fawcett, Philip., Fisher, Karen., Bishop, Anne., Magassa, Lassana “Using design thinking to empower ethnic minority immigrant youth in their roles as technology and information mediaries,” ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, (April 30, 2013).
Fisher, Karen., Fawcett, Philip., Magassa, Lassana. McArthur Digital Media & Learning Conference, “Teen design days: Promoting youth civic engagement through design thinking,” Chicago, IL (March 15, 2013).
Fisher, Karen., Magassa, Lassana. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD 2013), InfoMe @ teen design days: A multi-variable, design thinking approach to community development,” Cape Town, South Africa (December 9, 2013).

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

INFO 380 Information Systems Analysis and Design, Winter 2020
Information School | University of Washington
INFO 464 Value Sensitive Design, Spring 2019
Information School | University of Washington
LIS 510 Information Behavior, Winter 2018
Information School | University of Washington
LIS 510 Information Behavior, Winter 2017
Information School | University of Washington
LIS 570 Research, Assessment, and Design Methods, Autumn 2017
Information School | University of Washington
IMT 550 Policy, Law, and Ethics in Information Management, Autumn 2014
Information School | University of Washington
LIS 570 Research, Assessment and Design Methods, Autumn 2012
Information School | University of Washington

Service & Leadership

Committees/Leadership

Washington Courts’ Court Recovery Taskforce, 2020 - Present
Community Technology Advisory Board, City of Seattle, 2020 - Present
Head Start Policy Counsel, Seattle Public Schools, 2018 - 2019
Transformative Education Behind Bars, Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2010 – 2015
Education Advisory Committee, University Beyond Bars, 2011 - 2012

Conference Organizing

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), 2020
National Conference on Higher Education in Prison Programs | University of Washington, 2011
Regional Workshop on Higher Education Behind Bars | University of Washington, 2011

Professional Membership

American Corrections Association, 2014 – Present
Correctional Education Association, 2012 – Present
American Library Association, 2015 -2017
American Society of Criminology, 2014 - 2016

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