Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Bio

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist and technologist from the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma. She is an assistant professor of film and media at Hunter College in Manhattan. Her work combines immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship. 2025-2026, she is the Housing and AI Fellow, Future of Land and Housing at New America, and was awarded an ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grant, for the project Stabilizing Futures: Mapping Housing Loss with AI, in collaboration with Bright Community Trust and New America.

She is the creator of Wampum Codes and a former fellow of Stanford, Mozilla, and MIT’s Co-Creation Studio. Her projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through art, code, and collaboration, she builds new tools for justice and imagination.