The Society + Technology program recently held its inaugural convening, centered around a cross-disciplinary panel and messages from UW President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Tricia Serio.

Coverage in GeekWire highlighted the intention of the S+T initiative and the program’s growing community footprint.

“We put society first, very intentionally, in the name of the initiative, and in the idea that society makes technology,” Sengul-Jones told GeekWire. “It’s not that tech just comes from nowhere and then suddenly impacts society. We all make it. We are extensions of the tools that we create.”

Read the full GeekWire article here.