Payal Arora

Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, author, speaker and professor who works on how technology shapes low-income and Global South users. She was a resident at The Bellagio Center in April 2023, a four-week residency run by The Rockefeller Foundation. During that stay she worked on a book about AI-driven decision-making on social media and the next billion users. Her Bellagio Library essay later appeared under the title 'From Pessimism to Promise.'