Tea Uglow is a writer, LGBTQ activist, and a speaker on innovation, inclusion, and digital futures. Tea founded Creative Labs for Google in Sydney (2011) and London (2007) and focuses on projects with cultural organisations to enable artists, writers, dancers, and other cultural practitioners to digitally augment or interpret their work. As a queer activist, she is co-author of the proposal for a trans pride flag emoji and authored a compilation of LGBTQ activist speeches called Loud and Proud (Quatro, 2020). Her writing also includes A Curiosity of Doubts (Penguin, 2016). In 2018 she was awarded a Peabody for digital storytelling for “Editions at Play” a series of digital books with Visual Editions including We Kiss the Screens (2019) and A Universe Explodes (2018). She currently advocates for mental health and transgender awareness and mentors queer, female, and other intersectional creators and writers worldwide. She likes pop-physics, neuroscience for beginners, queer twitter, and shopping.

Her pronouns are She/They