Martha Ladly is an artist and designer, a noted researcher, and SSHRC recipient. She is Professor of Design and Graduate Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media, and Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University. She is a Principal Investigator at the Visual Analytics Lab at OCAD, leading a design team in constructing computational architectures for a visual/linguistic database of transatlantic slavery manumission records; developing a mathematical model for data analysis; and designing dynamic 2D and 3D visual models and user interfaces to aid in unearthing individual and personal histories that have been challenged by practices of slave renaming. Previously she was Head of Design with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Group in the U.K. winning BAFTA and Grammy awards for outstanding design and interactive artwork. She also had a prominent international recording career in the 1980s as a Canadian Juno award-winning musical artist and performer. She is an internationally published author, and the co-editor of the first anthology on mobile design: Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Eros, Women, and Technology", in the joint program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson in 2013.