James Epps (he/him)

James L. Epps is a multidisciplinary information scholar and artist whose research examines digital religion through the lens of Black feminist technology studies and Black womanist ethics. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. His current work explores the use of counternarrative and critical technocultural discourse analysis to examine the quality of information for and about Black religions in digital media environments. James is a research fellow for the UCLA Center for Resilience and Digital Justice. In addition, James was an archives fellow for Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Community Archives fellowship and earned the UCLA Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellowship to support his research. Epps is author of the forthcoming book *A Matter of Radical Pushback: A Political Theopoetics of Black Imagination.* (wipf & stock), a collection of essays and poems tracing methods of centering Black art in theology.