Presentations
Invited talks
2025
Keynote speaker : FOSS4G, New Zealand. We don't build tech. We build communities.
Women+ in Geospatial's event for International Women's Day 2025.
2024
Building communities of geofeminism : FOSS4G, Belém do Pará.
2022
Cross-referencing Data : Building Bridges with Activist Practices and
academics from and for Latin AmericaApril, Reading Month, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Presentation: Geographical Data and Feminist Ethics .
Fireside Chat : Navigating growth and scale in open communities . The Turing Institute
2021
Keynote speaker - GIS day . CU Boulder, CU Denver, CU Colorado Springs, Auraria Library
Distant Talks. PhD behind the scenes . Politecnico di Milano
Defense of the territory. Digital Self-Determination. Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts, Mexico
Colonialism in Open Data and Mapping . Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
2020
Feminist Mapping: Past, Present, and Future. University of Albany, University of Arizona
Producing knowledge on Wikipedia with a gender focus: Challenges, perspectives, and practices in the region . Ministry of Science and Technology of Costa Rica
Conferences
2024
Metrics on the well-being of our movement. Expanding collaborations with other communities . Wikimania. Katowice, Poland.
2021
Feminist ethics in the collaborative production of geospatial data in Latin America . XXXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.
2020
Geochicas and the path into mapping more inclusive spaces for women . North American Cartographic Information Society
2019
" The streets of Women " CSVConf IV. USA
2018
" Resistance and collaborative cartographic practices. A gender and territoriality perspective from OpenStreetMap " - 8th CLACSO Argentina Conference
2017
" Role and participation of women in OSM: How GeoChicas was created " State of the Map International - Japan
FOSS4G International - Tanzania
2016
" The role of Bolivian community radio in Tolosa for building resilience practices in territories vulnerable to disaster risk " XVIII REDCOM - Argentina
" Bolivian community radio in Tolosa, La Plata, as a producer of meaning for disaster preparedness in the face of water events. Resilience in the territory as a result of participatory communication management. " III Conference on Latin American and Caribbean Studies - Argentina
" Bolivian community radio in La Plata as a mediation and dialogue of knowledge for the construction of territories resilient to disaster " 1st Conference on Communication and Emancipation - Argentina
Interviews
We Decentralize Tech - Podcast
El PaÃs - Sexism, injustice and money: everything hidden in your street name
Fast Company - How the Geochicas are using crowdsourced maps to improve the lives of women in Latin America
Al Jazeera - Chile's 'A rapist in your path' song hits 200 cities: Map
ClarÃn - The sexist map of Buenos Aires streets: only one in ten has a woman's name
Emancipa Magazine - Geochicas, the geo-sorority collective
Maps created by women that challenge the power of Google Maps
Selene Yang, co-founder of Geochicas, reflects on the possibilities that emerge from feminist cartography
Community cartographies: drawing the territory beyond digital empires
Today, maps are no longer drawn on paper, but on digital interfaces. The new colonization is happening online.
Read the note
Geogirls: Women mapping a more diverse path
Selene Yang is one of the coordinators of Geochicas, the Latin American initiative of women who are part of the Open Street Map (OSM) community.