Joanne Richardson was born in Romania and grew up in New York. She studied philosophy and cultural studies at NYU and Duke Univerity. Richardson has lived for the past 4 years between Romania, Hungry and Croatia and was co-organiser of several events including Tactical Media Lab. She is also a filmmaker, founder of D Media Association in Romania, a digital democracy NGO organizing workshops on digital culture and editor of Subsol Webzine. Her work is mostly about social movements, post-colonialism, immaterial work, copyleft and film/video in Eastern Europe.