About

Farah Sattar is an engineer, researcher, educator, and writer. Their work and research aim to examine existing technologies and explore alternative futures centering 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. Farah is the the founder of DCRYPTD, an organization providing inclusive and accessible personal security resources and consulting. Farah is a member of the LaBac Hacker Collective and the NYC Cyber Abuse Task Force.

Farah’s professional interests include digital equity, disinformation and misinformation, cyber ethics and law, security awareness, counter-surveillance, fair use, and technology-facilitated abuse. When they’re not working, Farah can be found walking around New York, dancing throughout Detroit, or biking in the middle of nowhere.

Affiliations

Founder → DCRYPTD

Member → LaBac Hacker Collective

Member → NYC Cyber Abuse Task Force

Selected Engagements

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