Alycia de Mesa’s lineage is as a fourth generation of Arizona and a mixed-race American of Mexican, Apache of Chihuahua, MX, Japanese, British-German descent. She is the Assistant Director of Digital Equity & Social Impact at ASU Enterprise Technology, a Senior Global Futures Scholar for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and School of Sustainability faculty instructor.

Alycia is currently pursuing her Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (PhD) doctoral degree from ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she is exploring the ethics and boundaries of Indigenous storytelling and counter mapping in context to emerging technologies and smartphones for traditional ecological knowledge restoration within borderlands Indigenous communities.