Avner was a guest speaker for UCLA’s Digital Media Arts Department (2017) and the New York Times School (2019). She graduated from Yale University in 2012 and received her MA from California State University, Northridge (2022). Her thesis focuses on dislocation, technology theory, and indigenous futurism. She is the 2023 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Art Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.
Her writings on Artificial Intelligence were published in “What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate, and Reinvent Our Future” (2017), considered “one of the best science books of the year” by Smithsonian Magazine. She cofounded the digital media festival FEMMEBIT and advises SUPERCOLLIDER Gallery.