About Chesa Caparas
Chesa Caparas became the De Anza AI Faculty Fellow in January 2026. 
Chesa is deeply interested in technology’s impact on society and has been researching and teaching about digital culture since 2007. In 2022, before ChatGPT became publicly available, she completed a sabbatical project on AI literacy. She is currently pursuing a second master's in Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University. Her coursework and research focus on integrating AI into large organizations.
Previously, she has been a Stanford Human Rights Education Fellow focusing on human rights violations in the tech industry, Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines studying media and information literacy in politically polarized communities and California Learning Lab AI Faculty Innovator in Residence leading an intersegmental statewide AI learning community. Her scholarly work has been published in the Journal of Information Ethics, Journal of California English, ASCCC’s Rostrum, League for Innovations’ Innovation Showcase and MLA’s Exploring AI Pedagogy.