About

Farah Sattar is an engineer, researcher, educator, and writer. Their work and research aim to examine existing technologies and explore alternative futures centering safety, digital responsibility, and equity.

They are an Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate from Wayne State University’s College of Engineering and, more recently, was a Racial Equity Fellow at the Wayne State University Law School’s Detroit Equity Action Lab. Currently, Farah is a consultant at DCRYPTD, an organization providing inclusive and accessible personal and enterprise-level security resources. Farah is a member of the LaBac Hacker Collective and the NYC Cyber Abuse Task Force.

Farah’s professional interests include risk mitigation and remediation, governance and compliance, digital equity, disinformation and misinformation, cyber ethics and law, and security awareness. When they’re not working, Farah can be found walking around New York, dancing throughout Detroit, or biking in the middle of nowhere.

Affiliations

Consultant → DCRYPTD

Member → LaBac Hacker Collective

Member → NYC Cyber Abuse Task Force

Selected Engagements

Facilitator, Design Justice: Using Design Justice Principles to Shift Power in the Creation of Community Technology @ University of California, Los Angeles, Sept. 2024

Facilitator, Private Scrutiny Workshop Series @ 27th Letter, Apr. 2024

Panelist, Safe Spaces @ Spot Lite, Mar. 2023

Guest Speaker, CyPurr Session @ Brooklyn Public Library, Dec. 2021

Panelist, Reconfigure Project @ University of Oxford, Jun. 2021

Panelist @ Denim Day NYC, Apr. 2021

Speaker @ PancakesCon, Mar. 2021