Maria Bezaitis, EPIC Board President I entered the field of applied ethnography in the mid-90s. For me the point was never about practicing my academic training, or having a career that academia couldn’t provide. The point was always about who I got to work with and the dynamism we experienced...
SIMON ROBERTSEPIC Board President Dear EPIC Community: In this momentous 20th year of EPIC, I want to take a moment to recognize what our members have achieved and invite you to be part of our future. Our community-driven, nonprofit organization has been grown and sustained by people who connect...
Meet Carrie Yury (she/her), a design leader, artist, and dedicated EPIC member since 2011. Carrie has co-chaired EPIC conference committees, including PechaKucha, salons, and workshops, and presented fantastic work of her own. Carrie is currently a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, where she...
Lee (they/them) is a UX Researcher who has been part of the EPIC family since 2017. They specialize in complex technologies and AI/ML-driven products and work systems, having worked on AR/VR for Meta, autonomous vehicles for Waymo and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, and navigation systems for Lyft. Lee...
We are thrilled and honored to welcome Shakima Jackson-Martinez to the EPIC Board. Shakima is the Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at AnswerLab and has played a leading role on the EPIC Equity Council. She's passionate about using research to foster a deeper understanding of...
Communities that value diversity and peace struggles to foster conditions in which people can learn and create together across difference.
Please join us in thanking Martha Cotton and Carol Zatorre for their service and welcoming Samantha Gottlieb and Shriram Venkatraman to the EPIC Board of Directors. The EPIC Board exists to define the long-term direction of the organization and its activities. It also provides counsel to the...
Happy New Year EPIC People! New years, like all human rituals, are an ethnographic marvel. Amid the constant and disinterested motion of the Earth, people use the power of culture and collectivity to galvanize momentous rites of passage. From a cyclonic output of business metrics to intimate...
It’s easy to forget that for many years EPIC was ‘merely’ an amazing annual conference. With the arrival of Jennifer Collier Jennings in 2014, and Rita Denny in 2019, EPIC has made the transition to a flourishing membership organization – a community with a year-round presence. In the...
"Practiced masterfully, our analysis can be intense, immersive, rigorous, deeply collaborative, endlessly curious and profoundly social. Ethnographic masters revel in a detail overturned to reveal yet another. The result is the rendering conscious and ultimately visible the logics and patterns of...