AWE USA 2024

Lafiya WATSON
United States
Creative Technologist | SPECS Ambassador
Bad Chick Studios

Lafiya Watson is a multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist who brings the creative vision to shape stories and the technical fluency to build them. She creates interactive AR experiences, especially for wearable devices like SPECS, for which she is currently an ambassador. She collaborated on artist Koryn Wicks' location-based AR piece "Ghosts in the Machine: The Old Zoo," which won Excellence in Experience Design at FIVARS and was a 2025 IndieCade Finalist. Watson is an AR consultant for Agog, previously led the AR team at SEEN, and has mentored developers at hackathons including MIT Reality Hack and McGill XR Hackathon.