Dr. Olivia Snow is a writer, researcher and dominatrix. She's currently a Research Fellow at UCLA’s Center on Resilience & Digital Justice, where she studies sex work, labor rights, technology and policy.
Her research centers around the surveillance of in-person sex workers by Big Tech and the violence of financial and social deplatforming. Her forthcoming book, Canaries in the Coal Mine: Sex Work and Surveillance, traces the history of the internet alongside sex workers’ early adoption of novel telecommunication technologies to interrogate the symbiotic relationship between sex work and technological innovation. She argues that sex workers are one of many test populations for surveillance technologies that ultimately seek to surveil the population at large.
Dr. Snow holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and before joining UCLA, she was a research fellow at New York University’s AI Now Institute.
