Nithya Sambasivan is a second year doctoral student in Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She has a Master’s degree in Human-computer Interaction from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. Current projects include employment of participatory digital video for information exchange between slum communities and investigation of information flows in the informal sector of India. She has co-organized three workshops on HCI4D at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Her research experience includes summer research internships at Accenture Technology Labs, IBM T.J.Watson Center, Nokia Research Center, and Microsoft Research India.