Laila Shereen Sakr's research and creative scholarship have deployed the idea, experimentation, and aesthetics of glitch to make a series of conceptual points culminating in her single-authored book, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Stanford University Press, 2023). She is a practicing artist who uses the name "VJ Um Amel" (Arabic for "Video Jockey Mother of Hope") as her public persona. At UCSB, she co-founded Wireframe, a studio promoting collaborative theoretical and creative media practice with investments in global, social, and environmental justice. She also founded the Network of Arab Women in AI (2023), the R-Shief media system (2009), and the D.C. Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency (2003).