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Rua, an aging millennial queer with an asymmetrical side shave and round glasses, stands in front of a brick wall wearing a vibrant rainbow floral shirt and purple lipstick.

Rua M. Williams

(they/them)West Lafayette, IN
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Dr. Rua M. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the User Experience Design program at Purdue University and Principal Investigator of the CoLiberation Lab. As a former Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council (2022–2024), Dr. Williams explores how disabled people imagine and build their own sociotechnical worlds, often in spite of and orthogonal to existing structures of bias, stigma, and exclusion. They collaborate on projects exploring the intersection of disability and queerness in relation to technological autonomy and grassroots sociotechnical networks.