Arikia Millikan is a Haitian-American information architect with a background in engineering and psychology who specializes in online journalism infrastructure. After moving from NYC to Berlin in 2017 she founded CTRL+X, a research and development agency that explores alternative futures for online media platforms. In New York she spent 10 years working in corporate media (WIRED, Psychology Today, Seed Magazine) and founded LadyBits in 2013 to give tech-savvy women a platform to publish about technology. She has consulted for a wide range of clients in the tech, VC, and publishing worlds and was Nate Silver's research assistant during production of the #1 best-selling book, The Signal and the Noise. In her spare time she writes sci-fi and trains parrots.