Ashley Teodorson-Taggart is a 6th year student in the Performance Studies Graduate Group. She has Designated Emphases in Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Theory and Research and Studies in Performance and Practice.

Ashley’s work emerges from a 15 year practice as a birth doula (labor support provider) and career staff member at the Women’s Resources and Research Center. 

Her current research focuses on sexual and reproductive surveillance technologies and a shift away from the medical industrial complex writ large toward app based platforms and wearables that utilize artificial intelligence and powerful predictive algorithms to produce information about sexual health (ie anticipating fertility, preventing pregnancy and procuring data on other aspects of bodily functions).

Ashley is further interested in how these new technologies and the data they harvest can and are being used in a post Roe landscape to track, influence and even prosecute users seeking reproductive healthcare.

Ashley is a teaching assistant in the department of Cinema and Digital Media.