Solon Barocas is a Researcher in the New York City lab of Microsoft Research and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His research explores ethical and policy issues in artificial intelligence, particularly fairness in machine learning, methods for bringing accountability to automated decision-making, and the privacy implications of inference. He co-founded the annual workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML) and later established the ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*). He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research as well as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He completed his doctorate at New York University, where he remains a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Urban Science + Progress.

Victoria is currently the Director of Social Impact and Public Policy team at Tumblr focusing on engaging and activating advocacy groups, activists, and other changemakers to tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement with the Tumblr community, and drive measurable impact.

Prior to Tumblr, Victoria worked for the Obama Administration in the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Congressional Affairs. Before working in the Administration, she found her passion for social action working as a community organizer during the 2008 presidential election for Senator Barack Obama.

Jordan Harrod is a PhD student in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology working at intersection of ethical implementations of artificial intelligence for medicine and brain-machine interfaces under Dr. Ed Boyden and Dr. Emery Brown. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in 2018.

Her YouTube channel everydAI (“everyday AI”) focuses on engaging the public on artificial intelligence. You can follow her on Twitter @JordanBHarrod.

Chine Labbe is a French journalist based in New York City. She is the host and producer of Good Code, a podcast on ethics in digital technologies, created in collaboration with Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative (DLI). Labbe is also a Senior Editor at NewsGuard, a start up that evaluates and rates the reliability of news sites, where she focuses on French news sites.

Before relocating to New York City in 2017, Labbe worked for six years as a print reporter for Reuters in Paris, where she covered politics, courts, security and terrorism. Before joining Reuters, she worked as a multimedia producer for The Economist in New York. Labbe is a former Fulbright scholar and graduated from a dual degree program between the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Sciences Po in Paris in 2010.

Natalia works in data policy, strategy, and ethics for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the UK. She previously worked on open data challenges for 360Giving, an organisation supporting grantmakers to publish their data in an open, standardised way, and for a global women's rights organisation Womankind Worldwide. She has research experience in anthropology, gender, civic tech, and economic development. Her research on the impact of open data and ICT skills initiatives on the empowerment of women in Kosovo was presented at TICTeC 2019 in Paris, the Open Data Research Symposium 2018 in Buenos Aires, and will be featured in the upcoming book on the impact of open data.

Natalia received her MSc with Distinction in Local Economic Development from The London School of Economics and Political Science and her BA in Anthropology and Media (First Class Honours) from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Michelle Cortese is a Canadian virtual reality designer, artist and futurist residing in Brooklyn. She splits her professional time between designing VR experiences for Oculus at Facebook and teaching creative technology at NYU Steinhardt. Most of her work investigates the transmutation of communication across new technologies and formats.

Michelle was previously a Design Technologist at Refinery29; an Experiential Art Director at The New York Times' Fake Love; and has exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance Film Festival.

Cennydd Bowles is a London-based designer and writer focusing on the ethics of future technologies. He has worked with companies including Twitter, Samsung, and the BBC, and is a sought-after speaker at technology and design events worldwide. His second book 'Future Ethics’ is out in September 2018.

Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center. Dr. Cogburn, trained in Psychology, Social Work and Population Health, employs a transdisciplinary research strategy to improve the characterization and measurement of racism and in examining the role of racism in the production of racial inequities in health. Dr. Cogburn’s work also explores the potential of media and technology in eradicating racism and eliminating racial inequities in health. She is the lead creator of 1000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality experience of racism that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and is developing new projects linking issues of structural and cultural racism and VR.

She is currently the co-Director of the Justice Equity + Tech Lab at the Columbia University School of Social Work with Desmond Patton. Dr. Cogburn completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar Program and at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology, and MSW from the University of Michigan and her BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia.

For over 25 years, Linnette Attai has been building organizational cultures of compliance and guiding clients through the complex obligations governing data privacy, user safety, and marketing. As founder of the global compliance consulting firm PlayWell, LLC, Linnette provides strategic advising to companies, educators, lawmakers, trade organizations and policy influencers, with a focus on privacy and marketing regulation and industry self-regulation, compliance capacity-building, monetization models, and policy development.  She serves as virtual chief privacy officer and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data protection officer to select clients across all sectors, and speaks nationally on data privacy matters. 

Linnette is the author of the book, “Student Data Privacy: Building a School Compliance Program,” published by Rowman & Littlefield (2018) and the forthcoming, “Protecting Student Data Privacy: Classroom Fundamentals” (2019).  She is also a member of the Rutgers Center for Innovation cybersecurity advisory board and project director for the Consortium of School Networking privacy initiative.

Dr. Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary is a Professor of psychology and neuroscience at The City University of New York.  She has translated two decades of her research on stress and anxiety into the development of digital therapeutics, such as the evidence-based stress- and anxiety-reduction app Personal Zen, and is currently conducting an NIH-funded study of neural networks associated with teen anxiety. She has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, 20/20 with Diane Sawyer, CBS, CNN, NPR, The Today Show, and Bloomberg Television. She explores the interplay between digital technology and emotional well-being on her blog Psyche’s Circuitry and the Psychology Today Blog More than a Feeling.

Her work in mindfulness-based stress reduction in at-risk youth is the topic of the documentary film “Changing Minds at Concord High.” She is founder and Co-Executive Director of the Hunter College Center for Health Technology and The Stress, Anxiety, and Resilience Research Center. You can read more about her work at www.dennistiwary.com.

Dan Wu received his JD/PhD from Harvard, with a research focus on urban innovation. He’s privacy counsel and legal engineer at a data management platform for artificial intelligence. Through this work, he’s engaged with governance and IT personnel of large multinational companies on data governance and published pieces in Dataversity, Tech Pro IT, and Healthcare Business Today.

Many people are attempting to use Artificial Intelligence for good. Dr. Desmond Upton Patton, Associate Dean for Innovation and Academic Affairs and co-director of the Justice, Equity and Technology lab at Columbia School of Social Work, is actually doing it – by building empathetic and culturally sensitive algorithmic systems with diverse populations.

A pioneer in the use of social media and artificial intelligence to fight gun violence and Founding Director of the SAFElab at Columbia, Professor Patton is widely recognized for leveraging thought in the field of social work through community-based approaches to developing contextually sound, empathetic AI for society.

Professor Patton won the 2018 Deborah K. Padgett Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) for his work on social media, AI and well-being. He was named a 2017-2018 fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and is currently a 2019 Presidential Leadership Scholar and Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School.

Dr. Goldkind is an associate professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service. She is also the editor of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Dr. Goldkind’s current research has two strands: technology implementation in the human services and nonprofits and the social justice and ethics implications of data collection, use and dissemination in community based organizations.

Wherever possible she combines both ICT and social justice for a blend of tech enhanced civic engagement and improved organizational functioning. She holds an M.S.W. from SUNY Stony Brook with a concentration in planning, administration, and research and a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldkind is also a past visiting research fellow at the UN University on Computing in Society, Macau, SAR, China.

Maciej is a Research Fellow with the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School and an adviser to content moderation start-up Samurai Labs, as well as European Commission's Joint Research Centre. In the past he has developed policies for Polish and British governments, run democracy assistance programs in Burma and established few nonprofits. He is a recipient of i.a.: Fulbright-Schuman Award, Atlantic Council Millenium Fellowship, German Marshall Fund Rethink.CEE Award and Humanity in Action John Lewis Fellowship.

Mona Sloane is a sociologist whose work examines the intersection of design and social inequality, particularly in the context of AI design and policy, valuation practice, data epistemology, and ethics.

She currently is a fellow at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, where she convenes the “Co-opting” AI series. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and a contributing editor with Public Books.

Anoush Rima Tatevossian is a strategic communications advisor and consultant, with a specialization on digital technology and global affairs. She has held multiple roles including Senior Communications Officer to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation; Strategic Engagement Advisor on Digital & Innovation for the World Food Programme, the UN’a largest humanitarian aid organization; Director of UN Relations for the GSMA, a global association of the mobile technology industry; and Strategic Communications Officer for UN Global Pulse, the UN’s first data science lab, where she helped spearhead the “data philanthropy” movement.

Anoush Rima holds a B.A. from the College of William & Mary and Master’s in Public Diplomacy from the University of Southern California. She was the first Editor-in-Chief of Public Diplomacy Magazine, launched in 2009.

Ginny Fahs is a software engineer and social entrepreneur committed to making technology’s next chapter more human and inclusive. A Fellow at the Aspen Institute's Tech Policy Hub, she works on tools and strategies to protect vulnerable populations from online hacks.

She is also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Venture Moving Forward: a global social movement working with 150 VC firms to address harassment and discrimination in venture capital.

Kareem Elbayar is the Partnerships Manager for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Centre for Humanitarian Data. In that role, Kareem works with governments, humanitarian organizations, technology companies, and other stakeholders to build and strengthen a community of partners dedicated to using data to make humanitarian response more effective, efficient, and responsive to the needs of affected people.

Prior to joining OCHA, Kareem served for four years with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Iraq as a Programme Manager overseeing projects on human rights, legislative reform, national reconciliation, and communications with internally displaced persons. He also worked for seven years as a Legal Advisor at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, where he specialized in freedom of association in the Middle East and North Africa.

Kareem holds a Juris Doctor and Masters in International Affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Allie is the co-founder and CEO of TheBridge, a community of leaders shaping the future of tech, innovation, policy and politics. TheBridge provides a unique and neutral forum for productive, nonpartisan dialogue increasing understanding and collaboration between innovators and regulators.

Allie has worked with some of the most innovative tech companies including SpaceX and Google. Allie helped start and advised the RH-ISAC. Allie has worked on national and statewide election campaigns, most recently serving as deputy communications director on a presidential campaign in the 2016. Allie understands Capitol Hill having served as communications director for a US Congressman. Allie also has extensive issue advocacy experience, having advised coalitions and worked on cyber security, data privacy and e-commerce issues at trade associations and national political committees.

Andrew is a design-minded product strategist who is passionate about emerging technologies and the future we’re building with them. He’s driven innovation at companies like IBM, IDEO, Genesis Mining, & Wyre with a focus on AI, cloud, and blockchain products.

A thought leader in the tech ethics space, he serves as an Advisor at All Tech is Human and has written about the intersection of technology and society for YouTheData, the Center for the Study of Ethics and Technology, and IBM.

Andrew received a classical education at Biola University and will complete his MBA at Duke University in 2020. You can keep up with his work at andrew-sears.com.

Sam Wu is the Data Policy Product Manager at Stae. She has worn multiple hats in the technology space including software engineer, data analyst, product manager, and now policy researcher. Her job at Stae includes researching the intersection of data and policy, analyzing the tradeoffs and opportunities to come and how governments are grappling with them.

Mary Madden is a veteran technology researcher, writer and public speaker. She is currently a Research Lead at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York City, where she directs an initiative to explore the impact of data-centric systems on Americans’ health and well-being. Prior to her role at Data & Society, Mary was a Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center’s Internet, Science & Technology team in Washington, DC and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is a nationally-recognized expert on privacy and technology, trends in social media use, and the impact of digital media on teens and parents.

Robin Berjon heads Data Governance at The New York Times, with a particular focus on issues of ethics and privacy. Prior to that he worked extensively on innovation, technology, and Internet governance. He was editor of HTML5 and several other standards for the W3C and sat on the Technical Architecture Group.

Flynn Coleman is a writer, international human rights attorney, public speaker, professor, and social innovator. She has worked with the United Nations, the United States federal government, and international corporations and human rights organizations around the world. Flynn has written extensively on issues of global citizenship, the future of work and purpose, emerging technologies, political reconciliation, war crimes, genocide, human and civil rights, humanitarian issues, innovation and design for social impact, and improving access to justice and education. 

She is the author of the book, A Human Algorithm (October 2019), a groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology.

Alexander is an "Entrepreneur to hire“ - with a passion for combining creative-systemic thinking, research, and product conception. His experience is in technology and psychology. He's an expert in designing, creating and executing strategies to achieve innovative, impact-driven results. He loves to work together with diverse, top-notch teams. His special interest is in realigning technology with humanity's best interests. Many years ago, he co-founded the famous post-tech startup ( OFFTIME ) (exited), one of the very first initiatives that pioneered the field of digital well-being and technology that protects our minds. Currently, he serves ThoughtWorks as a consultant to deliver technology to address their clients' toughest challenges, while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.

Madhulika Srikumar is a 2019 India-U.S. Fellow at New America. Srikumar will be working on India-U.S. data sharing for law enforcement and explore the underlying privacy standards for access to electronic data in the two countries. She will also develop a prototype of a digital tool for Indian investigating agencies to send direct requests to U.S. internet companies, incorporating human rights standards of minimization, necessity, and proportionality. With the passing of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) in April 2017, her project seeks to provide an insight into a potential direct data sharing regime between India and the United States.

A lawyer by training, Srikumar regularly authors opinion pieces for leading publications. She also convenes the Foundation’s annual ‘AI For All’ dialogue in Mumbai and leads ORF’s efforts on AI policy and algorithmic bias especially the ways in which machine learning can exacerbate existing gender inequities. Through her research and advocacy, Srikumar seeks to examine how cyber governance in emerging economies can respond to policies scripted predominantly in the West.

Mark Latonero is the Research Lead for Human Rights at Data & Society and a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Previously he was a research director and research professor at USC where he led the Technology and Human Trafficking Initiative, and he has served as Innovation Consultant for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Mark’s work focuses on the social and policy implications of emerging technology and examines the benefits, risks, and harms of digital technologies, particularly for vulnerable and marginalized people.

He has led field research in over a dozen countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Haiti, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Serbia. Recent reports include: Governing Artificial Intelligence: Upholding Human Rights & Dignity and Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health, and Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece (with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative). He has also written for The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Harvard Business Review. Latonero completed his PhD at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and was a postdoctoral research scholar at the London School of Economics.

Maya Yee is the Trust & Safety Operations Manager at Vimeo, a video-based media platform, where she is responsible for maintaining platform integrity and ensuring a consistent, humane online user experience. She is an expert in DMCA and copyright enforcement, policy generation, and user generated content moderation. She and her team work around the clock to identify, remove, and report bad content and bad actors. From child exploitation to extremist content, Maya has seen it all and she is committed to ensuring that no one else has to.

Outside of work, Maya is passionate about racial equity and criminal justice reform. She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Criminal Justice Administration. She was born and raised in Oakland, California and now resides in Brooklyn. Ask her anything!

Marc is a defender, technologist and policy wonk. He is dedicated to fighting on the front lines as a publi defender against discriminatory tech-fueled power structures, leveraging his experience as a PhD engineer, Congressional staffer, and policy advocate. As a second year J.D. candidate at NYU, Marc has interned with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and currently interns with the Federal Defenders of New York. He co-founded the NYU student organization Rights over Tech, dedicated to ensuring human rights primacy over technology. He is also the Vice-Chair of IEEE-USA’s AI Policy Committee which advises the federal executive and legislative branch on all things AI.

Before law school, Marc was a Congressional staffer working on issues ranging from space, science, and AI, to
justice, surveillance, and immigration. He earned his Ph.D. in aerospace and cognitive engineering Ph. D at Georgia
Tech building human-machine systems for the military.

Yaël is a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech in the Digital Life Initiative, where she explores technology's effects on civil discourse and democracy. She has spent 18 years working around the globe as a CIA officer, a national security advisor to Vice President Biden, the Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations in Facebook's business integrity org, a diplomat, a corporate social responsibility strategist at ExxonMobil, and the head of a global risk firm. Yaël works with governments, tech companies, and investors focused on the intersection of ethics, tech, society, and policy.

Yaël is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and provides context and analysis on technology, national security, and political affairs in the media, as a speaker, and through workshops and seminars. She has been published in the New York Times, TIME, WIRED, Quartz and The Huffington Post, has appeared on BBC World News, CNN, CBS News, PBS and C-SPAN, in policy forums, and on a number of podcasts. 

Ariba is the Director of Innovation at the Ad Council, where she’s charged with scaling design thinking and agile practices, creating digital products for social impact, nurturing a culture for experimentation and exploring future-forward technology for the organization.

As an immigrant Bengali woman that discovered her profound hearing loss at age eight, Ariba focuses on advocating for diverse, marginalized voices that are often overlooked, ensuring we bring humanity into tech. She has over 10 years of experience in human-focused product design, a background in Biomechanical Engineering, love for educating the youth in tech and a hobby for knitting more scarves than she needs.

David Ryan Polgar is a pioneering tech ethicist who paved the way for the hotly-debated issues around Facebook, AI ethics, unintended consequences, digital wellbeing, and what it means to be human in the digital age. He has appeared on CBS This Morning, BBC World News, Fast Company, SiriusXM, Associated Press, the Washington Post's "Can He Do That?" podcast, USA Today, and many others. An international speaker with rare insight into building a better future with technology, David has been on stage at Harvard Business School, Princeton University, The School of the New York Times, TechChill (Latvia), The Next Web (Netherlands), FutureNow (Slovakia), and the Future Health Summit (Ireland). 

David is a frequent consultant and tech commentator, co-host of the podcast Funny as Tech, and an advisor for Hack Mental Health, the Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness (TAM) program, and #ICANHELP--all committed to using tech for good.