Rebecca Caines (she/her) is a Canadian/Australian socially-engaged creative technologies, artist and scholar, currently at York University, at the brand new Markham campus. She has co-created award-winning large scale participatory projects in sound art, performance, and digital art, with partners including Indigenous communities, families and support groups, survivors of healthcare injustices, and arts and education networks. She also publishes research on creative technology pedagogy, art and technology in social justice, contemporary understandings of community, and the fragile promise of ethical connection through improvisation and new ways of listening.