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Latoya Peterson is a storyteller and technologist. One of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 rising stars in media for 2013, she is best known for the award-winning blog Racialicious, focused on the intersection of race and pop culture. Previously, she was Deputy Editor over Digital Innovation at ESPN’s The Undefeated, Editor-at-large at Fusion, senior digital producer for The Stream, a social media driven news show on Al Jazeera America and a John S. Knight Journalism 2012-13 Fellow at Stanford University focusing on mobile technology and digital access. She produced a YouTube series on Girl Gamers and is currently working on projects incorporating virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.