Hi, Join us for the Change Seminar next Tuesday 14th, 2020 at noon. *When*: Tuesday 1/14, 12pm-1pm *Where*: CSE2 271 (Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Building). *Who: *Naveena Karusala *Title: *Engaging Identity, Assets, and Constraints in Designing for Resilience *Bio:* Naveena is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington's School of Computer Science and Engineering, working with the Information and Communication Technology and Development (ICTD) Lab and advised by Richard Anderson. Her research lies at the intersection of HCI and ICTD. Drawing on qualitative and participatory methods, she studies the use of chat in patient-provider communication and how it can be leveraged towards the design of sustainable health technologies that support care work. Her work draws on feminist and assets-based perspectives on design, focusing on equity, bridging policy and ground-level perspectives, and sustainability. *Summary:* We contribute to the growing conversation on assets-based approaches to design in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with a qualitative study of resilience. Our study is situated within a community health infrastructure in a rural county in southwest Kenya, where health organizations pay community health workers’ salaries via digital payments, backdropped by ongoing issues with missing and delayed payments. Through the lens of intersectionality, we examine how community health workers of diverse backgrounds and contracted status respond to the mandated use of digital payment methods and long payment delays. We highlight how resilience in this context is situated in workers’ intersecting socioeconomic and professional identities, which shape the assets and constraints that workers engage with, in efforts to be resilient. We leverage our findings to discuss how assets-based approaches to design can be further operationalized and used to sustainably support resilience. Samia Ibtasam <http://samiaibtasam.com/> PhD Student, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington,