Lab Members

Dr. Clareese Hill, Principal Investigator

Dr. Clareese Hill, PhD, is a practice-based art researcher in XR and Immersive Media. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Clareese holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a Master of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunication (ITP) from New York University, and a practice-based Ph.D. in Art Research, concentration in Mixed Realities and Creative Computing, from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London.

Founder and PI, Speculative Repair Lab

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, CAMD

Monica Storss, PhD Student, Founding Member

Monica Storss is a poet and futurist researching Relationality. Her work interrogates repairing our relationship with Technology.

She is an expert in Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention Pedagogies, and has created award winning learning programs, pedagogies, and curricula in innovation and emergent technology for Intel, Hewlett Packard, PayPal, MIT, Harvard, Biogen, and many others. She serves as a curriculum and programs strategist for higher education, FAANG, startups, non-profits, and F-100 organizations.

Her creative praxis is dedicated to experimental literary practices in relational digital environments including off-world art, VR/AR/XR, and Artificial Intelligence.

Founding Member, Speculative Repair Lab

PhD Student, CAMD

Angelique Motunrayo Folasade Akiya C-Dina, PhD Student

Angelique is a first-generation theatrical storyteller based in New England. They are a current CAMD PhD student at Northeastern University focusing on Black feminist narratives and embodied theatrical practices through research-based theatre. Her performance credits include: The Inferior Sex (Trinity Repertory Company), Soul Tapes (Brown/Trinity), An Octoroon (Gamm Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gamm Theatre), and more. Their other accolades include: KCACTF finalist ’21, National Young Playwright semi-finalist ’21, Ronald McNair scholar ’22, Lime Arts Twenty by Twenty Fringe Playwright ’23 and Lin Manuel Miranda fellow ’23, and Company One Volt Lab Playwright ‘24. They also serve as a research and design assistant for two Northeastern and City Of Boston projects.

Affiliate Member

PhD Student, CAMD; Advised by Dr. Dani Snyder-Young