Keshshi, I am Elizabeth Starks, MS. I am a citizen of the Zuni Pueblo with Dinè and Melika heritage in Coast Salish land and waterways.

My work focuses on understanding and using new technology for supporting community-created answers for preservation and support of cultural vitality.  This can look like intergenerational storytelling with microcontrollers, virtual reality experiences of Indigenous Futurism, exhibit and interactive application design and development with cultural institutions, and research-based instructional design for institutional change.  Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) can benefit from Indigenous Knowledge Systems. I look forward to creating with you.

Recent Work

TechTales & TechSTYLE Tales

Development and implementation of innovative robotics and e-textiles programming with underrepresented communities

Making, Materiality and Robotics within Everyday Acts of Indigenous Presence and Resurgence. Journal: Cognition and Instruction, Volume 37, 2019 – Issue 3: STEM Learning: For Whom and Toward What Ends? Carrie Tzou, Meixi, Enrique Suárez, Philip Bell, Don LaBonte, Elizabeth Starks & Megan Bang