Jasmine C. Foriest



PhD
Writer
Founder, Forge & Foundry
Senior Implementation Advisor, Cardiff Model



I study how technology shapes violence—and how we can make it better.

News & Updates


Starting as a Post-Doc @ UNIL
June 2026

Presenting @ CHI in Barcelona
April 2026

Thesis Defense
March 2026

Invited Lecture: Emory OBGYN Grand Rounds
March 2026

Invited Lecture: The New School Atlanta
February 2026

Thesis Proposal
January 2026

About As a PhD Candidate at Georgia Tech and an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at UNIL, I examine how digital systems mediate harmful outcomes and violent experiences. Sometimes technology bridges critical gaps for survivors seeking help. Sometimes it creates new forms of harm. My work sits in that tension.

I bring over a decade of experience in violence prevention and public health to computing research. With degrees in both public health (MPH) and technology, leadership, and management (MS), I develop cross-disciplinary methods to evaluate digital systems in contexts that matter—from intimate partner violence to mental health in online communities to generative AI.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Human-Centered Computing
Minor: Communications
Georgia Institute of Technology
Anticipated May 2026

Master of Science
Technology, Leadership, and Management
Graduate Certificate: Data Visualization
Agnes Scott College
May 2021

Master of Public Health
Concentration: Global Health Leadership
University of Southern California 
August 2017

Bachelor of Science
Health Science
Columbus State University
May 2013

Research Experience Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab
2021-2025

ORISE Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Injury Center
Division of Injury Prevention, Data Science Team
Mentors: Nimi Idaikkadar, MPH,  Royal Law, PhD, MPH

Office of Strategy and Innovation, Data Science Unit
Mentors: Steven A. Sumner, MD, MS, Daniel Bowen, MPH
2021-2025

Injury and Violence Prevention Fellow 
Southeastern & Southwestern Injury Prevention Network

Graduate Research Assistant
Influential Networks for Women of Color in STEM
Community College Pathways
NSF DUE-1937777 | Social Network Analysis
Advisor: Melo-Jean Yap, PhD

CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholar
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Advisor: Vern Anderson, PhD
2023 - 2024

Professional ExperienceSenior Implementation Advisor
Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention
Injury Prevention and Research Center at Emory (IPRCE)
 Emory University
2021-Present

Graduate Faculty
Agnes Scott College
2023-2026

Data Scientist, Lead Data Strategy and Science
City of Atlanta Office of the Public Defender
2023-2025

Injury Prevention Coordinator
Grady Memorial Hospital
2015-2023
AwardsDoctoral Consortium
The Mechanisms of Muting:
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
2025

President’s Fellowship
Top 10% of PhD applicants 
$5,000/year
2021

George Family Foundation Fellowship Institute for People and Technology
$3,750
2022

GT-UCEM PhD Fellowship
University Center of Exemplary Mentoring
$30,000
2023

Cardiff Organizational Readiness
Co-Investigator 
CDC Injury Control and Research Center
$180,000
Press

2025 Article





Publications

2026

Foriest, J., Ajmani, L. H., De Choudhury, M. (2026). (Re)mediators of Epistemic Injustice: Generative AI and Hermeneutic Resource Provision in Intimate Partner Violence. In ACM CHI ’26: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 13– Apr 17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Godwin, A., Foriest, J., Bottcher, M., Baas, G., Tsai, M., and Wu, D.T. (2025). Interaction Techniques for Providing Sensitive Location Data of Interpersonal Violence with User-Defined Privacy Preservation. In ACM CHI ’25: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 26– May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages.

Honorable Mention (Top 5%) CHI 2025

2025

Foriest, J.C., Jain, M., Horne, B., and De Choudhury, M. (2025). A Growing Sense of Alienation: Spirals of Silence and Suppression of Structural Circumstances of Suicide in News. In Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. ICWSM, 2025.

2024

Foriest, J.C.*, Mittal, S.*, Bray, K.*, Tran, A.*, and De Choudhury, M. (2024). A Cross Community Comparison of Muting in Conversations of Gendered Violence on Reddit. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 401 (November 2024), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686940

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Recognition Received at CSCW 2024

Ajmani, L. H., Foriest, J. C., Taylor, J., Pittman, K., Gilbert, S., & Devito, M. A. (2024). Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 523 (November 2024), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687062

Foriest, J. C., Mittal, S., Kim, E., Carmichael, A., Lennon, N., Sumner, S. A., & De Choudhury, M. (2024). News Media Framing of Suicide Circumstances and Gender: Mixed Methods Analysis. JMIR mental health, 11(1), e49879.

Mittal, S., Foriest, J., Horne, B., and De Choudhury, M. (2024). News Media and Violence Against Women: Understanding Framings of Stigma. In Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. ICWSM 2024.

Yap, M. J., Foriest, J., Walker, K., Sanford, S., & Rice, A. (2024). Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 23(1), ar10.

2023

Ajmani, L., Houtti, M., Foriest, J. C., Devito, M. A., Vincent, N., & Johnson, I. (2023, October). Epistemic Injustice in Online Communities: Unpacking the Values of Knowledge Creation and Curation within CSCW Applications. In Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 527-531).

2021

Clery, M. J., Hudson, P. J., Moore, J. C., Kollar, L. M. M., & Wu, D. T. (2021). Exploring injury intentionality and mechanism via ICD-10-CM injury codes and self-reported injury in a large, urban emergency department. Injury prevention, 27(Suppl 1), i62-i65.

Zalesky, C. C., Moran, T. P., Koval, R. R., Usher, J., Ratcliff, J. J., Wu, D., & Wright, D. W. (2021). A prospective cross-sectional study examining the documented evaluation of patients at high risk for mild traumatic brain injury. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 42, 150-160.

2020

Kollar, L. M. M., Sumner, S. A., Bartholow, B., Wu, D. T., Moore, J. C., Mays, E. W., Atkins, E.V., Fraser, D.A, Flood, C.E., & Shepherd, J. P. (2020). Building capacity for injury prevention: a process evaluation of a replication of the Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme in the Southeastern USA. Injury prevention, 26(3), 221-228.

Koval, R. R., Zalesky, C. C., Moran, T. P., Moore, J. C., Ratcliff, J. J., Wu, D. T., & Wright, D. W. (2020). Concussion care in the emergency department: a prospective observational brief report. Annals of emergency medicine, 75(4), 483-490.

2019

Wu, D. T., Moore, J. C., Bowen, D. A., Kollar, L. M. M., Mays, E. W., Simon, T. R., & Sumner, S. A. (2019). Proportion of violent injuries unreported to law enforcement. JAMA internal medicine, 179(1), 111-112.

2018

Bowen, D.A., Mercer Kollar, L.M., Wu, D.T., Fraser, D.A., Flood, C.E., Moore, J.C., Mays, E.M., and Sumner, S.A. (2018). Ability of crime, demographic and business data to forecast areas of increased violence. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 25(4), 443–448.