Raksha Muthukumar is a Brooklyn-based educator & activist, working at the intersection of technology, labor, and sexuality.
Raksha was a founding member & spokesperson for the Google union, before she left the world of big tech to start her own media + education company. Raksha is a community organizer and educator, and she is most passionate about topics such as the the democratization of technology and the tech industry, decriminalization of sex work, and grassroots power-building and solidarity between all persons for our collective liberation.
Raksha has spoken at Stanford, Rotterdam School of Management, and The Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation. Her writing can be found in Mashable, PBS, and Them Magazine. She offers consultation services for organizations wishing to improve diversity + equity practices, and has provided contracted services for American Repertory Theater at Harvard, the Ruby on Rails Conference, and Queer in AI, in advisory capacities.
In 2023, Business Insider named Raksha as one of the top 18 tech activists to look out for.
Raksha is currently available for collaboration with organizations of all sizes at sliding-scale rates.
Published Writing
(Mashable) - Top 5 digital security tips from sex workers - Aug 2024
(Mashable) - Why these former tech workers became sex workers — and love their new lives - Nov 2023
(Tech Workers Coalition Newsletter) - Who’s Cleaning Twitter? - Feb 2023
(Them Magazine) - How Queer Sex Workers Can Help Us Learn to Love Ourselves - Aug 2022
(PBS Rewire) - How Polyamorous People Are Dating Again After Vaccination - Aug 2021
(Wussy Magazine) - Digital Sex & Social Distancing: A Guide to Getting Your Rocks Off Remotely - Apr 2020
Public Speaking + Workshops
(Yahoo Finance) - Google worker on union: Employees need to re-claim their ‘workplace power’ - Jan 2021
(Doctoral School on Sustainable Information and Communications Technology) - Advocating For Ourselves & Others in the Tech Workplace - July 2023
(ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction) - DEI Keynote Speaker: What does organized labor mean for DEI in HRI? - March 2023
(Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation) - Challenging Tech: International Perspectives on Organizing - May 2021
University Guest Lectures:
Stanford, Rotterdam School of Management, University of Michigan, University of Utah, Boise State