Teaching Assistant: [Ashley Jane Lewis](http://ashleyjanelewis.com/) is an interactive artist with a focus on tech education and speculative design. Her art practice envisions empowered black communities of the past, present and future through machine learning, data weaving, networked devices, analog textiles, bio art and performance. Her award winning work has exhibited in both Canada and the US, most notably on the White House website during the Obama presidency. As an educator, Ashley has taught more than 3500 youth how to code, landing her on the 2016 Top 100 Black Women to Watch in Canada as well as press coverage as a tech activist from Reader’s Digest, Huffington Post, Metro News and Washington Square News. Ashley is proud of the work she has done with Daniel Shiffman and his team on ml5.js, a “friendly machine learning for the web” platform that lowers the barrier to entry into creative computing. She is currently finishing a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications at ITP in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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