Kai Zen Cole
Co-founder, Red Canary Song | Director of Technology @ WoST
Kai Zen Cole (they/she) is a software engineer and migrant labor organizer. They’ve worked on data science projects for audio fingerprinting at a machine learning startup, and freelanced in building housing data dashboards for City Council. They’ve also taught coding at Per Scholas to underrepresented communities in tech. They are the co-founder and Outreach Director of Red Canary Song, as a dominatrix with a background of 13 years in sex worker rights organizing in NYC, Montreal, Toronto, and the UK. Kai has worked on data privacy trainings for sex workers at Tactical Tech, and is a core member of Hacking//Hustling, and a Community Advisory Board member at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.