Kelcey Gibbons is a PhD student at MIT in the HASTS program (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society). Her research focuses on race and technology, particularly the African American experience of technology in the late 19th to mid 20th century. She is interested in the computer as a technology of black freedom, community building, and American citizenship; and in how black betterment organizations wove the computer into black freedom narratives and how the computer (as a device, idea, image) contributed to how those freedoms were imagined, sought-after, communicated. Recent publications include “Inventing the Black Computer Professional”, in Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society.