Isabella Raja
Research Associate
Isabella Raja
Research Associate
Isabella (Bella) Raja’s research examines the lifecycle of digital technologies, especially through environmental and labor cases. She has explored these topics through research on conflict mineral supply chains for AI hardware, electronic waste recycling and tech repair, and community impacts of resource extraction and AI infrastructure projects.
Bella has an MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute and a BAH in STS from Stanford University. Currently, at the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance, she works on the Below the Algorithm project, examining critical mining sites and raw materials for AI infrastructure and hardware. She has also worked in responsible tech advocacy through research and community organizing at Stanford and with the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Challenge.
Lifecycles of Digital Technology, Planetary Justice and AI, Algorithmic Bias, Responsible Tech and Entrepreneurship, History of Computing