Mallika Dharmaraj
Bio
Mallika Dharmaraj is a technology researcher, writer, and creative, and the Growth & Development Lead at Logic(s) Magazine. Broadly, her work focuses on situating contemporary biometrics / ‘AI’ within larger historical trajectories of power, violence, and personal/collective complicity from anti-caste and transfeminist perspectives. Mallika collaborates on various anti-surveillance projects with researchers from the Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and University of Cambridge. She holds an MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data, & Algorithms from the University of Cambridge and an A.B. in Computer Science and History and Literature from Harvard University, and has published work with journals like the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and popular outlets like Outlook, The Caravan, Hindustan Times, The Wire, INC Longform, Brown History, and more. Alongside 9 other global movement organizers, she recently served on the Peer Circle for Weaving Liberation‘s inaugural Digital Justice Fund. This year, her multimedia artistic/film exhibition “ETERNITY IN A MILLISECOND,” exploring themes of trans spectacle, was awarded the 2026 Arts Prize by the Surveillance Studies Network in Lille, France.