Curator and Featured Speakers:

Dr. Avriel Epps

Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they) is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in Human Development at Harvard. Her work, supported by The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, and the National Center on Race and Digital Justice, delves into how bias in predictive technologies affects adolescent racial, gender, and sociopolitical identity development. As an educator, she has taught and designed courses on subjects like Digital Privacy, Data Science Ethics, and Adolescent Development. Avriel also co-leads AI4Abolition, an organization dedicated to increasing AI literacy and building open-source AI tools for marginalized communities. Her scholarship has not only appeared in academic journals and handbooks but has also reached wider audiences through publications like The Atlantic and the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary TikTok, Boom. Recently, she completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in Education with a concentration in Human Development and will begin her tenure as Assistant Professor of Fair and Responsible Data Science at Rutgers University in the Fall of 2025.

Meredith Broussard

Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at New York University. Her books include More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech and Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. She appears in the Emmy-nominated documentary Coded Bias on Netflix

Virginia Eubanks

Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. Her investigative reporting and personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, The Nation, Harper’s, and Wired. She is currently working on a memoir about community violence, PTSD, and caregiving. Andrea Quijada is gathering oral histories of the global automated welfare state for Voice of Witness. She lives in Troy, NY.

Curator and Featured Speakers:​

Dr. Avriel Epps

Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they) is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in Human Development at Harvard. Her work, supported by The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, and the National Center on Race and Digital Justice, delves into how bias in predictive technologies affects adolescent racial, gender, and sociopolitical identity development. As an educator, she has taught and designed courses on subjects like Digital Privacy, Data Science Ethics, and Adolescent Development. Avriel also co-leads AI4Abolition, an organization dedicated to increasing AI literacy and building open-source AI tools for marginalized communities. Her scholarship has not only appeared in academic journals and handbooks but has also reached wider audiences through publications like The Atlantic and the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary TikTok, Boom. Recently, she completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in Education with a concentration in Human Development and will begin her tenure as Assistant Professor of Fair and Responsible Data Science at Rutgers University in the Fall of 2025.

Henriette Cramer

Henriette Cramer is the co-founder of PaperMoon.AI, the AI safety startup that combines quantitative, large-scale data with in-depth, qualitative feedback from people to understand both "what" is happening and "why." Prior, she was Director of Algorithmic Impact and Responsibility at Spotify. Henriette has extensive product and research experience in recommenders, search, (ro)bot, voice, and advertising applications. She holds multiple patents, 60+ research publications, and a PhD revolving around Trust in AI from the University of Amsterdam. She is based in San Francisco.

Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles, CA. She has been on the frontlines of the abolitionist movement, building with Black Lives Matter, Justice LA, Dignity and Power Now, and Reform LA jails. Cullors is also the co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, the Founding Director of the Social and Environmental Arts MFA program at Prescott College, and the founder of The Center For Art and Abolition. With the mission to invite all of us to grow toward abolition through intergenerational healing work that centers on love, collective care, and art, Cullor's current work and practice focus on "Abolitionist Aesthetics." A recipient of numerous awards for her art and activism, her work has been featured throughout Los Angeles and across the globe.

John Lopez

John Lopez started his career covering entertainment and the arts for Grantland, Vanity Fair, and Business Week, among others. He was an associate producer on Hossein Amini's adaptation of The Two Faces of January and has written for Paramount +'s Strange Angel, Netflix's Seven Seconds and Amazon's The Terminal List. He participated as a Writers Guild of America's AI working group member in the run-up to their 2023 contraction negotiations.

Curator and Featured Speakers:

Dr. Avriel Epps

Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they) is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in Human Development at Harvard. Her work, supported by The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, and the National Center on Race and Digital Justice, delves into how bias in predictive technologies affects adolescent racial, gender, and sociopolitical identity development. As an educator, she has taught and designed courses on subjects like Digital Privacy, Data Science Ethics, and Adolescent Development. Avriel also co-leads AI4Abolition, an organization dedicated to increasing AI literacy and building open-source AI tools for marginalized communities. Her scholarship has not only appeared in academic journals and handbooks but has also reached wider audiences through publications like The Atlantic and the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary TikTok, Boom. Recently, she completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in Education with a concentration in Human Development and will begin her tenure as Assistant Professor of Fair and Responsible Data Science at Rutgers University in the Fall of 2025.

Kashyap Rajesh

Kashyap Rajesh, a high school Senior from Chicago, serves as the Global Chapter Coordinator for Encode Justice, a global movement of youth dedicated to championing a responsible, conscientious, and ethically governed AI ecosystem. Working with over 60 community-level chapters, Kashyap helps organize AI literacy workshops at local high schools, craft innovative legislation, provide testimonies at congressional hearings, and research emerging AI trends and their broader societal impacts. Beyond his role at Encode Justice, Kashyap is an advocate for youth mental health as the Inaugural Youth Advisor on the Vernon Township 708 Community Mental Health Board, a governmental agency he led a successful campaign to establish in the fall of 2022.

Sneha Revanur

Sneha Revanur is the 19-year-old founder and president of Encode Justice, an international organization that has mobilized youth for safe, equitable AI since July 2020. Born and raised in San Jose, California, she is also a second-year at Williams College. Most recently, Sneha was the youngest participant at a private White House roundtable on AI with Vice President Harris and was the youngest named to TIME's list of the 100 most influential voices in AI.

Brendesha Tynes

Brendesha Tynes, Ph.D., is a developmental and educational psychologist whose transdisciplinary research focuses on critical digital literacy, the design of digital mental health interventions, and the impact of online race-related experiences. She is currently a professor of education and psychology at the University of Southern California and the founding director of the Center for Empowered Learning and Development with Technology. Recipient of numerous research awards, fellowships, and funding, she conducted the National Survey of Critical Digital Literacy, the first longitudinal study on critical digital literacy skills.