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Robert Stribley

(He/Him)
Brooklyn, New York
As seen in: CNN, Medium, HuffPost, Observer, UX Magazine, UX Collective, An Injustice!, OpenGlobalRights
Covers:  immigration, human rights, user experience design, information architecture, interaction design, privacy, privacy by design, content strategy, art, film, literature, books, music, culture
Digital magpie, information architect, content strategist, writer, photographer, media & political junkie, Australian, American, Razorfish, NYC
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A Beach Divided

A Beach Divided

Medium — The U.S. and Mexico stand in stark contrast where their edges meet at the Pacific Ocean I had wanted to explore this specific point on the southwestern border of the United States ever since I saw a brief video about surfers from both Mexico and the U.S.
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Lefty dentists and inclusive design

Lefty dentists and inclusive design

Medium — My dentist and I bonded over a shared characteristic recently, when we discovered we're both left-handed*. This topic came up when he mentioned how he had everything set up to assist him as a southpaw.
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No Transit: The criminal treatment of transgender asylum seekers in the United States

No Transit: The criminal treatment of transgender asylum seekers in the United States

OpenGlobalRights — Activists from the human rights group, Doctors for Camp Closures, hold illuminated signs on a freeway overpass next to the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California, in February 2020. The group is calling for the end of US immigration detention centers and the US policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico and Central America to wait for their asylum court appointments.
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Free Flow

Free Flow

Medium — As many western industrial nations drifted towards protectionism if not outright nationalism in the last decade, an already constrictive environment had developed for the free movement of the labor market. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, gave such nations just the hammer they needed to further nail immigration constraints into place.
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We Deport Veterans

We Deport Veterans

Medium — For decades, we've deported military veterans-legal residents of the United States-while dangling citizenship before them This is the tale of two Hectors. Two U.S. military vets. Both lived in the United States for many years as immigrants from a young age. Both were deported. One made it back. One hasn't.
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Your Company Needs a Digital Ombudsman. Pronto.

Your Company Needs a Digital Ombudsman. Pronto.

Medium — Does your local newspaper have what may seem like an unusual job? An ombudsman? It's a unique job and I've long wondered why most companies don't have a similar role by now - specifically to represent consumer concerns from a privacy and data security perspective, but also for handling other issues that affect users, such as so-called "fake news" and dark experience patterns.
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Undocumented Americans

Undocumented Americans

Medium — Writing about immigration as I do, and about undocumented immigrants in particular, it's not uncommon for me to stumble across comments like this tweet from "RepubliDan" online: "More than our share of DACA ppl," he says. "Go home and help your own," he says.
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This Time of Siege

This Time of Siege

Medium — You can't do it, I squeak from inside. You can't make me feel at home here in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza. Legalized suspicion of my legitimacy is now a permanent resident in my gut...
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Litany: Stories from the Trump Deportations

Litany: Stories from the Trump Deportations

Medium — In writing my feature article This Time of Seige, I arrived at a problem. I wanted to list each arrest and deportation story I found but the sheer number of them began to overwhelm the piece. Rather than cutting them all, I decided to list them here to bear witness to each story, the people affected and their unique situations.
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Google Just Made It Harder to Spot Fake News

Google Just Made It Harder to Spot Fake News

Medium — Google debuted changes to its image search on February 15th, which simplified the way individual results display. In response to complaints from Getty Images, Google removed some helpful if peripheral features associated with each image found within its results.
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Chain Migration Is Just Immigration

Chain Migration Is Just Immigration

Medium — The term's origins were more innocent. Mentions of chain migration can be found in academic journals on Google Books as far back as 1935 in reference to various demographics studies. JSTOR confirms the term's use as early as 1942. In their 1964 article "Chain Migration Ethnic Neighborhood Formation and Social Networks," John S.
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No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren't Stealing Your Benefits

No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren't Stealing Your Benefits

HuffPost — One of the most effective ploys by those attempting to vilify undocumented immigrants is to assert that those immigrants are stealing benefits from Americans. Donald Trump has deployed this falsehood on multiple occasions both in his speeches and on Twitter long before becoming president. It's an insinuation quite divorced from reality.
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Eradicate ICE

Eradicate ICE

Medium — "Eradicate." The word means "to pull up by the roots." It's from the Latin eradicatus, the past participle of the Latin verb eradicare. So literally, "root." The word "radish" comes from the same. Why the word choice then? Because it's important that we not just shut down the U.S.
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Nobody Should Be Reduced To An 'Illegal Immigrant'

Nobody Should Be Reduced To An 'Illegal Immigrant'

HuffPost — I became an American citizen through legal if unusual means. It wasn't by right of birth. I was born in Perth, Western Australia. Nor was it through some significant financial investment as some do  - a rather elite method of ingress I never hear folks complain about.
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What Is The 'Immigration Industrial Complex'?

What Is The 'Immigration Industrial Complex'?

HuffPost — As Donald Trump burned a phosphorous trail through the 2016 presidential election-greased with fears of rampaging, criminal "illegal immigrants" - he typically left one important facet of the immigration subject unmentioned: Who is hiring these undocumented immigrants? And why do these employers receive so little of his ire?
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A Brief Chat With New York City's Counter Terrorism Police About My Photography

A Brief Chat With New York City's Counter Terrorism Police About My Photography

New York Observer — I've been engaged in a little project for several weeks now where I stop and take photographs of the goings on outside Trump Tower on 5th Avenue here in New York. I've dropped by several times to take photos for anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or so.
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The Way We Speak About Unauthorized Immigrants Matters

The Way We Speak About Unauthorized Immigrants Matters

HuffPost — How we talk about illegal immigration is important, so it shouldn't surprise us that, collectively, we've come with many different ways of describing those people who immigrate illegally to the United States - ways which reflect our personal biases and beliefs.
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I Experienced What Makes America Great At A Community Pool In Brooklyn

I Experienced What Makes America Great At A Community Pool In Brooklyn

HuffPost — Come on in. The water's fine. A diverse scene at a Red Hook pool speaks to what makes this country great Trying make the most of the last days of summer, I've been visiting the Red Hook community pool, which turns out to be the better public pools in New York City.
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Illegal Immigrant Does Not Equal Violent Criminal

Illegal Immigrant Does Not Equal Violent Criminal

Huffington Post — How the far right misuses rhetoric and data to convince the public undocumented immigrants are violent criminals
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There Is No Illegal Immigrant Crisis

There Is No Illegal Immigrant Crisis

Huffington Post — A fact-based review of the myths about undocumented immigration in the United States
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How Egypt Got Her Voice Back

How Egypt Got Her Voice Back

scattergather.razorfish.com — The job of a despot just ain't what it used to be. Ask Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He tried taking down the internet. He tried cutting off cellular communications. Still, the Egyptian people found a way to speak. Not just to speak though, but also to communicate their message broadly, through the Internet, to all the peoples of Earth. Dramatic stuff, huh? Indeed, we're lucky to live in such times. A hundred years ago and for eons before, such an uprising would've been put down quickly and violently and few would have heard or seen the details of what unfolded beyond the immediate area.
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Shepard Fairey Working on Huge Mural in New York

Shepard Fairey Working on Huge Mural in New York

CNN — Famed L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey could be found late Tuesday night installing an immense new mural where Houston Street meets Bowery in New York City. Fairey is in New York for the opening of his new show at Deitch Projects gallery on Wooster Street. He is working on the location with a team of people, piecing together a gigantic wheat paste mural, the focus of which appears to be a tabloid newspaper satirizing right-wing media's skeptical position on global warming and towards science in general.
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