Sophia Rebolledo

Sophia is a researcher, organizer, and emerging policy leader committed to ensuring that the technologies shaping our lives are built with, not against, the communities most impacted by them. She is the founder of the Feminist Tech Lab at Stanford University, an initiative she created to address a fundamental gap: the absence of spaces where students from marginalized backgrounds can critically examine, challenge, and reimagine the digital systems that govern civil rights, bodily autonomy, and democratic participation. 

Under Sophia’s leadership, the Feminist Tech Lab has become a hub for interdisciplinary education and community-rooted action. The initiative centers women, nonbinary students, and queer and BIPOC technologists through workshops, speaker series, and collaborative design sessions addressing algorithmic discrimination, surveillance capitalism, reproductive justice technologies, and ethical frameworks for human-centered design. She has built partnerships with community organizations working on digital equity, data justice, and anti-carceral technology alternatives, ensuring the Lab’s programming remains accountable to those most affected by technological harm. 
Sophia’s leadership is informed by her broader work at the intersection of policy, feminist theory, economics, and justice. She has contributed civil rights policy analysis at the White House Initiative on AANHPI, and spent over a year as a crisis counselor at Bay Area Women Against Rape, where she supported survivors navigating technology-facilitated abuse, image-based harm, and systems often ill-equipped to meet their needs. 
As a woman from an island community with a history of colonization, she understands that technology is never neutral—it encodes power, and it can be collectively reimagined. The Feminist Tech Lab operates on a core belief: that the next generation of technologists, lawyers, and policymakers must be trained not only in technical skill, but in ethical reasoning and structural accountability. Sophia is dedicated to cultivating that generation—building toward a future where technology governance centers dignity, consent, and liberation.