Deibi Sibrian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering. A first-generation Indigenous Salvadoran scholar of Maya Ch’ortí lineage, Deibi studies the socio-environmental consequences of digital transformation. Deibi’s dissertation, Digital Transformations, Physical Costs, examines how digital infrastructure—including AI, data centers, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency mining—reshapes land, energy systems, public health, and more-than-human ecologies. Grounded in environmental justice, Indigenous rights, One Health, and multispecies justice, the project compares sites in El Salvador and the Columbia River Gorge/Oregon to trace the material and socio-ecological costs of digital development. Deibi’s work combines community-engaged fieldwork, visual ethnography, geospatial analysis, archival research, and policy analysis, while also developing regenerative research on engineered living materials and sustainable futures beyond extractive digitalization.
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Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
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