Standing with Dr. Timnit Gebru

Standing with Dr. Timnit Gebru — #ISupportTimnit #BelieveBlackWomen

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with Dr. Timnit Gebru, who was terminated from her position as Staff Research Scientist and Co-Lead of Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team at Google, following unprecedented research censorship. We call on Google Research to strengthen its commitment to research integrity and to unequivocally commit to supporting research that honors the commitments made in Google’s AI Principles.

Until December 2, 2020, Dr. Gebru was one of very few Black women Research Scientists at the company, which boasts a dismal 1.6% Black employees overall. Her research accomplishments are extensive, and have profoundly impacted academic scholarship and public policy. Dr. Gebru is a pathbreaking scientist doing some of the most important work to ensure just and accountable AI and to create a welcoming and diverse AI research field.

Instead of being embraced by Google as an exceptionally talented and prolific contributor, Dr. Gebru has faced defensiveness, racism, gaslighting, research censorship, and now a retaliatory firing. In an email to Dr. Gebru’s team on the evening of December 2, 2020, Google executives claimed that she had chosen to resign. This is false. In their direct correspondence with Dr. Gebru, these executives informed her that her termination was immediate, and pointed to an email she sent to a Google Brain diversity and inclusion mailing list as pretext.

The contents of this email are important. In it, Dr. Gebru pushed back against Google’s censorship of her (and her colleagues’) research, which focused on examining the environmental and ethical implications of large-scale AI language models (LLMs), which are used in many Google products. Dr. Gebru and her colleagues worked for months on a paper that was under review at an academic conference. In late November, nearly two months after the piece had been internally reviewed and approved for publication through standard processes, Google leadership made the decision to censor it, without warning or cause. Dr. Gebru asked them to explain this decision and to take accountability for it, and for their lackluster stand on discriminatory and harassing workplace conditions. The termination is an act of retaliation against Dr. Gebru, and it heralds danger for people working for ethical and just AI — especially Black people and People of Color — across Google.

Research integrity can no longer be taken for granted in Google’s corporate research environment, and Dr. Gebru’s firing has overthrown a working understanding of what kind of research Google will permit. This is also a moment of reckoning beyond Google. As we know, Dr. Gebru is one of the few people exerting pressure from the inside against the unethical and undemocratic incursion of powerful and biased technologies into our daily lives. This is a public service, and its importance cannot be overstated. Google’s retaliation against Dr. Gebru, and its move to silence this work, concerns us all.

We have the following demands of Google Research leadership:

1. We demand that Jeff Dean (Google Senior Fellow and Senior Vice-President of Research), Megan Kacholia (Vice-President of Engineering for the Google Brain organization), and those who were involved with the decision to censor Dr. Gebru’s paper meet with the Ethical AI team to explain the process by which the paper was unilaterally rejected by leadership.
2. We demand transparency to the broader public, including Google users and our colleagues in the academic community, about Google leadership’s decision to order Dr. Gebru and her colleagues to withdraw their research on large-scale language models. This has become a matter of public concern, and there needs to be public accountability to ensure any trust in Google Research going forward.
3. We demand that Google Research make an unequivocal commitment to research integrity and academic freedom, drastically strengthening the commitments made in Google’s Research Philosophy, and commit to supporting research that furthers the goals of Google’s AI Principles by providing clear guidelines on how research will be reviewed and how research integrity will be respected.

To add your name to the list of academic, civil society, and industry supporters (Googlers, see go/stand-with-timnit):

1. Email StandWithTimnit@gmail.com from your institutional email address (preferred) with the subject line “support”
2. Include your name and affiliation, as you’d like it to appear on the list of signatories.

Signed,

236 Googlers and 393 academic, industry, and civil society supporters

Googlers include:

Adrien Kunysz, Systems Engineer
Alex Hanna, Senior Research Scientist
Alicia Chang, Technical Writer
Andreas S., Software Engineer
Andrew Gainer-Dewar, Ph.D., Software Engineer
Andy Schneider, Software Engineer
Angela Pablo, UX Designer, Equity Engineering
Ann Fernandez, Google Children’s Center Educator
Becca Roelofs, Research scientist
Bonnie Zhou, Software Engineer
Cassandra Cruz, SWE
Chelsea Price-Gallinat, Inclusion Lead, Google Children’s Center
Chewy Shaw, Site Reliability Engineer
Chris Koch, Software Engineer
Christopher Anderson, Senior Software Engineer
Christopher Schmidt, Senior Software Engineer
Claudia McKenzie
Clay Murphy, Technical Writer
Clayton Robbins, Diversity Equity Inclusiveness Program Manager
Conner Kasten, Software Engineer
Dan Ellis, Research Scientist
Dan Nanas, Program Manager
Diana Scholl, creative strategist
Dr. Alon Altman, Senior SWE-SRE
Dylan Baker, Software Engineer, Ethical AI
E. Lily Yu, Technical Writer
El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Research Scientist and Ass. Professor
Emily Denton, Senior Research Scientist
Emily Maier, SRE
Eric Eslinger, Software Engineer
F Malik, UX Designer
Fernando Diaz
Fiona Lee, 14-year Googler
Gabe Benjamin, Senior Software Engineer
Gabriel Jimenez, Product Marketing Manager
Garrett Maron, Data Analyst
Hugo Larochelle, Research Scientist
Isaac Clerencia, Site Reliability Engineer
J Pratt, Software Engineer
Jacqueline Leykam, Senior Software Engineer
Jamie Leach , Search Quality Lead
Jason Gurevitch, SWE
Jazbel Wang, SWE
Jed Hartman, Technical Editor
Jeff Warshaw, User Experience Researcher
Joëlle Skaf, Staff Software Engineer
Johanna, SWE
John Panzer, SWE
Julia Kreutzer, Research Scientist
Justin Sybrandt
Kacey Saff, Software Engineer
Kai Ninomiya, Senior Software Engineer
Kate Kenneally, Software Engineer
Katherine Ann Heller, Research Scientist
Lea Coligado, Software Engineer
Lexie Judd, Product Manager
Lilian Young
Lisa Bao, Software Engineer
Lisa Hirsch, Technical Writer
Madeleine Clare Elish
Manfred Georg, Staff Software Engineer
Marie Collins, Business Analyst
Mark Díaz, Research Scientist
Matthew Dempsky, Senior Software Engineer
Matthew Hayes, Software Engineer
Melissa Hernandez
Michael Vartan
Miguel Barreto, Software Engineer
Negar Rostamzadeh, Research Scientist
Nick Felt, Software Engineer
Nitya Priyahita, Policy Program Manager
Owen Lytle, Software Engineer
Peta-Gay Clarke, Googler
Senior Software Engineer
Rachel Farber, Program Manager
Raksha Muthukumar, Software Engineer
Reed Fernandez, Logistics Lead
Rigel Swavely, Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Rob Ruenes, Senior Software Engineer, Google News
Rose V., Software engineer
Samir Datta, Product Analyst
Sanura N’Jaka, Software Engineer
Shubha Raghvendra, Product Manager
Siamak Tazari, Staff Software Engineer
Sonya Alexandrova, Software Engineer
Tiffany Sun, SWE
Will Hayworth, Site Reliability Engineer
Z Edens, SRE

Academic, civil society, and industry supporters:

Meredith Whittaker, Faculty Director, AI Now Institute, Minderoo Research Professor, NYU
Mar Hicks, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Mutale Nkonde, Fellow Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford
Dr. Mona Sloane, Fellow, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University
Jack Poulson, Executive Director, Tech Inquiry
Keith O’Hara, Bard College
Jevan Hutson, University of Washington School of Law ‘20Ben Tarnoff, Co-Founder, Logic Magazine
Irene Knapp, Tech Inquiry
Kate Henne, Professor and Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Australian National University
Audrey Beard, AI / ML software engineer, and Co-Founding Member of the Coalition for Critical Technology
Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, UC San Diego and Program Co-Chair, ACM Fairness Accountability and Transparency Conference 2021
Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, Microsoft
Victoria Vassileva, Arthur AI
Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, honeycomb.io; former Googler
Kendra Albert, Harvard Law School
Leif Hancox-Li, Responsible AI, CDML/VaLT, Capital One
Jonathan Garcia, Senior Director of Programs & Inclusion at Hack the Hood.
Rebekah Tromble, PhD, Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, George Washington University
William Agnew, University of Washington School
Roya Pakzad, Founder, Taraaz
Julien Cornebise, Ph.D., Honorary Associate Professor, University College London
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
Dr. Beth Semel, MIT Emanuel Moss, Researcher, AI on the Ground Initiative, Data & Society Research Institute
Janet D. Stemwedel, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, San José State University
Sherri Rose, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Elizabeth Chin, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Dr. Florian Kräutli, University of Zurich
Brian M. Bot, Principal Scientist, Sage Bionetworks
Crystal Lee, MIT, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Sergio “Checo” Gonzales, Stanford University, PhD Student, Biomedical Informatics
Sarah Pickman, Doctoral candidate, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
Sophie Waldman, Xoogler
Lucy Low, University of Waterloo
Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University
Samuel Adrian Massey III, Principal UX Designer, HERE Technologies
Dawna Bagherian, PhD Candidate, California Institute of Technology
Rebecca Rivers, Research Engineer, NYU
Henry Farrell, SNF Agora Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Sarah Fox, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Benjamin VanderSloot, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Detroit Mercy
Jennifer Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology, UC Santa Barbara
Dr. Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK
Susan Wehling, Professor of Spanish, Valdosta State University
Alyssa Smith, MIT 2017 alum
Naj Austin, Founder/CEO of Ethel’s club & Somewhere Good
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Gautam Machiraju, Biomedical Informatics PhD Candidate at Stanford University
Elizabeth Kaziunas, Ph.D., Ph.D., AI Now Institute, New York University
Lauren Wolfe, Research Data Specialist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Hannah Mieczkowski, PhD Candidate in Communication, Stanford University
Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Ben Wagner, Assistant Professor | TPM | TU Delft Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Roban Hultman Kramer, Machine Learning Engineer, Stripe
Colin Rhinesmith, Associate Professor and Director, Community Informatics Lab at Simmons University
Julienne LaChance, PhD Candidate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, and Lead Instructor of Princeton AI4ALL
Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft
Roel Dobbe, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology
Miles Brundage, OpenAI
Ciamac Moallemi, William von Mueffling Professor of Business, Columbia University
Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock, Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Lachlan Simpson, Systems Administrator, University of NSW
Zachary Terner, Research Associate, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS)
Joy Buolamwini, Founder, Algorithmic Justice League
Michael Veale, Ph.D., Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation, UCL
Daniel Schwarz
Piotr Mirowski, Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind
Jonathan Zong, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy Howard, Founding Researcher, fast.ai Distinguished Research Scientist, University of San Francisco
Jill Dimond, PhD, Sassafras Tech Collective
Gabriel Grill , PhD Student, University of Michigan
federica bianco, University of Delaware
Sarah Myers West, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Now Institute
Alicia DeVos, PhD Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Jon Pincus, CTO, The Nexus Today
Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff, Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University
Dr. Siddharth Garg, Institute Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University
Nick Seaver, Assistant Professor, Tufts University
Angelina Wang, PhD Student, Princeton University
Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Fellow, Mozilla Foundation
Ashok Khosla, President Khosla Foundation and Trust, Adjunct Professor, University of Alaska, Past Managing Director, Apple India
Ana Brandusescu, Professor of Practice, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal, McGill University
Seth Erickson,
Dr. Britt Paris, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
Luke Stark, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Varoon Mathur, Research Fellow, AI Now Institute and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy NYU
Arivuchelvan G, Software Engineer
Liya Weldegebriel , Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Thomas Varsavsky, PhD Student, University College London
Joe Futoma, Research Scientist, Apple
Khimya Khetarpal, PhD Candidate, McGill University, Mila Montreal
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Jessica Hammer, Assistant Professor, HCII & ETC, Carnegie Mellon University
Helen Tilley, Associate Professor, History of Science and African Studies, Northwestern University
Tina Eliassi-Rad, Professor, Northeastern University
Tina Fetner, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University
Ana Marasovic, postdoc, Allen Institute for AI
Arvind Satyanarayan, Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL
Deepta Rajan, IBM Research
Dr. J. Nathan Matias, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University
Rumman Chowdhury, CEO, Parity
Naomi Schiller, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn College and CUUY Graduate Center
April Sagan, PhD Candidate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Naomi Schiller, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn College and CUUY Graduate Center
Julia Rhodes Davis, Senior Advisor, Algorithmic Justice League
Daniel Lowd, Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
Suchin Gururangan, PhD candidate, University of Washington
Eden Medina, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Wonyoung So, PhD Student, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Nicholas Selby, Graduate Student, MIT
Gillian Smith, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Shireen, Founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women Inc.
Lily Xu, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Tech Inquiry
Yonatan Bisk, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Robsky Huntley, Ph.D., Lecturer in Urban Science and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Miller Yoder, PhD Candidate, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Julian Posada, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Shireen, Founder, Digital Sisters/as & Stop Online Violence Against Women
Elias Khalil, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Jessie J. Smith, PhD Student, University of Colorado Boulder
Erin LeDell, Chief Machine Learning Scientist at H2O.ai; Founder of Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS)
Ross Teixeira, PhD Student in Computer Science, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Piotr Sapiezynski, Associate Research Scientist, Northeastern University
M. R. Sauter, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland — College Park
Rachel K. Walker, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor & PhD Program Director, College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Todd Wolfson, Rutgers University & Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC)
Evan Selinger, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Ethan Goan, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
Matt Rafalow, Senior Researcher, YouTube Research
Swabha Swayamdipta, Postdoctoral Investigator, AI2
Amber Solomon, PhD Candidate in Human-Centered Computing
Delia Shelton, NIH NIEHS K99/R00 Fellow
Razvan Amironesei, PhD, Data Ethics Research Fellow, University of San Francisco
Brad Weslake, Associate Professor of Philosophy, NYU Shanghai
Lauren Chambers, Staff Technologist, ACLU of Massachusetts
Dr. E’lana Jordan, Qualitative/Ethnographic Researcher
Samir Gadre, PhD Student, Columbia University
Emma Kaywin, Doctoral Student — Health Education, Health and Behavior Studies, Columbia Teachers College
Shamika Goddard , Doctoral Student, Department of Information Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Kareem Estefan, PhD candidate, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Raesetje Sefala, Research Intern, Mila
Rachel Thomas, PhD, Director, Center for Applied Data Ethics, University of San Francisco
Vishal Bakshi, Adjunct Faculty, Engineering and Technology Department, City College of San Francisco
Joshua Loftus, New York University
Thorsten Busch, University of St. Gallen, Trinity College Dublin & HEC Montréal
Naomi Klein, Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies, Rutgers University
Nicole Hughes, Algorithmic Justice League
Dr. Cynthia L. Bennett, Research Engineer at Apple, Inc. and Post doctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
John Fallot, Co-Founder, Prosocial Design Network
Jonah Dahlquist, Software Engineer
Ada Worcester, Site Reliability Engineer, former Googler
Paul Duke, Software Engineer; former Googler
Connor Gilroy, PhD Student in Sociology, University of Washington
Anne Spencer Rosss, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Jesse Thomason, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Nikita Srivatsan, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Hal Daumé III, Professor, University of Maryland / Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Kelvin Lee, Software Engineer
Lindsay Weinberg, Clinical Assistant Professor, Honors College, Purdue University
Sara FitzGerald, Grad Student, University of South Carolina
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Vikas Gosain, Microsoft
Şerife Wong, Founder, Icarus Salon
Julie Setele, PhD, MLIS student, University of Missouri
Lori Williams, Software Engineer
Quincy K. Brown, Ph.D, blackcomputeHER.org
Aneesha Kommineni, Microsoft
Alexis Baria, data scientist, Direct Supply
Krzyś Chwała, Yale University
Stephanie Jowett, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Sherri Rollins, City Councillor, Fort Rouge East Fort Garry Ward, City of Winnipeg
Andrew Sellars, Director, BU/MIT Technology Law Clinic, Boston University School of Law
Christa Hartsock, Engineering Manager Code for America, Co-founder Logic Magazine
Andy Sellars, Boston University School of Law
Nancy Clements, RN, BSN
Laurence Berland, terminated Google Senior SRE and organizer
Michael Gasser, Emer. Assoc. Prof., School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering, Indiana University
Charlie Snell, Undergraduate researcher at Berkeley AI Research
Lisa Dyer, Signing as self
Rachel Szabo, PhD student, MIT
Elizabeth M. Adams, Race & Tech Fellow, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford
Julia Copley, UX Content Designer
Ted Pedersen, Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Adam M. Smith, Assistant Professor of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz
Mandy Henk, CEO, Tohatoha Aotearoa Commons
Sara Kingsley, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Philip Chodrow, Hedrick Visiting Assistant Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. University of California, Los Angeles
Sorelle Friedler, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Haverford College; Co-Founder, Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; former Googler
Selam Gano, MIT
Ronald Niezen, Professor, McGill University
Jake Vasilakes, PhD Candidate, University of Manchester
Manuel Sabin, PhD, Postdoc at COHUBICOL Project, Radboud University
Eva Short, Software Engineer at Gracenote
Anthony Barranco, Software Engineer, Ubisoft
William Morris, Director of Data Science, Faraday Inc
Avanti Shrikumar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Animesh Garg, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
David Paulius, Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich
Neal Patwari, Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis
Nikhil Dharmaraj, Undergraduate Student, Harvard College ‘23
Nicole E. Weber, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University & AI Now Institute
Monika Viktorova, Consultant
Chris Emezue, Research Scientist
Kyle McDonald, Founder IYOIYO
Rodney Sampson, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Opportunity Hub; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
Bianca Lepe, PhD Student, BE & CSAIL, MIT
Yannik Kumar, Master’s student, University of Chicago
Iga Kozlowska, Microsoft
Abhishek Das, Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research
Joshua Feldman, Data Scientist, BlueDot Inc.
Michelle Carney, ML + UX Researcher, Berkeley
Rodrigo Ochigame, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan Dinu, Independent Researcher, Jonathan Industries
Matthew Kay, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Dan Bouk, Associate Professor, Colgate University
Kelly B. Wagman, MIT Comparative Media Studies
Sebastian Ruf, Postdoctoral Researcher, Northeastern University
Dr. Magdalena Olszanowski, Concordia University
Thomas Krendl Gilbert, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley
Sarah Wylie, UI Engineer
Aerica Shimizu Banks, Founder and Principal, Shiso
Ethan Baker, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karina Halevy, Harvard
Erhardt Graeff, Assistant Professor of Social and Computer Science, Olin College of Engineering
Vicente Ordonez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
Jonah Ko, R&D Engineer, ME/EE
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Professor, MAE, Cornell University
Debashis Sinha, Sound artist
Sritej Attaluri, Sritej Attaluri, UC Berkeley
Björn Lütjens, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Dowden, CEO of Andromeda Galactic Solutions
Gwynn Sturdevant, PhD, Harvard
Shelly Glennon, ex-Googler, founder A Bigger Table
Andrew Fitzgerald, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Grant R. Vousden-Dishington, Research Software Engineer at the Anti-Defamation League
Susan E. Cuffaro, Founding Member, Gig Workers’ Collective
Kentrell Owens, PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Rebecca Alemayehu
Lauren Lee McCarthy, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for EDI, UCLA School of Arts and Architecture
Sean McDonald, Co-founder Digital Public and FrontlineSMS
Ali Alkhatib, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Data Ethics, University of San Francisco
Devin Guillory, Ph.D Candidate UC Berkeley
Jennifer Crump
Hassan Hijazi, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jessica Lee, Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine D’Ignazio, Assistant Professor of Urban Science & Planning, MIT
Craig Ewert
Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Voss, Lecturer in Software Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews
Nif Ward, Software Development Engineer
Veena Calambur, Data Scientist, Pfizer
Emily Cunningham, User Experience Designer, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
Chloe R. Autio, Lead, Data and Responsible AI Policy at Intel Corporation
Miguel Alonso Jr, Florida International University
Amandalynne Paullada, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
Meareg Hailemariam, Lecturer, Dakar American University of Science and Technology
Mason Kortz, Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic
Sohini Upadhyay, PhD Student, Harvard University
Jason Radford, Principal Research Scientist, Northeastern University
Philip Butler, Seekr Project Founder, Assistant Professor, Iliff AI Institute, Iliff School of Theology
NaLette Brodnax, Assistant Professor of Data Science, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Michelle Bakels, Lead Developer and Instructor, Boca Code
Joanne Ma, Graduate Student, Berkeley School of Information
Meital Hoffman, MIT
Anoush Najarian, NeurIPS Meetup Chair, ICML Virtual Chair
Shannon McNair, Business Operations Manager
Nathan Cooper, Ph.D. Computer Science Graduate Student, The College of William and Mary
Evan “Pete” Walsh, Allen Institute for AI
Momin M. Malik, Ph.D., Data Scientist
Amy Shropshire, Faculty in Marketing at Columbus State Community College
Patrick Durusau,
Anne Kavalerchik, PhD Student, Indiana University, Sociology & Informatics
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Ph.D Student, MIT
Jakita O. Thomas, Ph.D., blackcomputeHER.org
Atri Rudra, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University at Buffalo
Brian Tesch, Technical Recruiter, formerly Amazon
Neilly H. Tan, PhD Student, University of Washington
Anastasia Schaadhardt, PhD student, University of Washington
Fanta Traore, Co-founder of the Sadie Collective, dual degree student at Yale
Jeffrey Gleason, ML Engineer, Kungfu.ai
Dr. Lee Clement, Software Engineer, Oxbotica
Gretchen Krueger, OpenAI
Lucas Lima, Software Engineer
Ranaji Deb, Artist
Claire Stapleton, former Googler
Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University
Rasmi Elasmar
Vanessa Suarez, Data Engineer, Candid
Jacob Metcalf, PhD, Data & Society Research Institute
Jenny Korn, Founding Coordinator of the Race+Tech+Media Working Group at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Jennifer Strickland, Principal, Jen Strickland Design
Mitchell Wortsman, University of Washington
Kellie Owens, Researcher, Data & Society Research Institute
Anjalie Field, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Vincent M. Southerland, Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law
Gabriel Grill, PhD Student, University of Michigan
Isaac Johnson, Research Scientist
Randi Williams, PhD Student, MIT Media Lab
Eva Yezerets, Johns Hopkins University, PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Chris Fairless, Postdoctoral Researcher ETH Zurich
Baobao Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Elena Lucherini, Computer Science PhD candidate at Princeton University
Ameet Rahane, Research Technologist II, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Danyel Fisher, Principal Design Researcher, Honeycomb.io
Emma Bedor Hiland, PhD, School of Communication Studies at James Madison University
Alan Mackworth, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, UBC
Meron Feleke, Managing Partner, Impala Communication
Mia Shah-Dand, CEO — Lighthouse3, Founder — Women in AI Ethics™
Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bharat Prakash, PhD Student, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Julia Silge, Software Engineer, RStudio PBC
Caroline Peralta-Neel, UX Designer, ITP-NYU 2020
Yolanda A. Rankin, Ph.D. — Florida State University School of Information
Robert Soden, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Jeannette Bohg, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Lauren Klein, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University
Tawana Petty, Fellow, Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford
Geoff Korb, Data Scientist
Sharif Amit Kamran, PhD student, University of Nevada, Reno
Chelsey Rhodes, PhD Student, University of Toronto
Igor (Gary) Rubinov, PhD, co-founder Dovetail Labs
Russell Y. Neches, Postdoctoral Scholar, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mayowa Oke, Princeton University, Department of Neuroscience
Clara Sherley-Appel, UX Writer, Atlassian
Angus Galloway, PhD Student
Bridget Burns, MIT PhD Student, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Michael Madaio, Microsoft Research
Jessie Daniels, PhD, Professor, Sociology, Hunter College; Professor, Sociology, Critical Psychology & Africana Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dr. Andrew Hamilton-Wright, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Guelph
N. Lewis, Software Engineer
Hessie Jones, Women in AI Ethics Collective, #100Brilliant Women in AI
Shivanand Venkanna Sheshappanavar, PhD Student, University of Delaware
Zineb BelmKaddem, Moroccan human and digital rights activist
Alan Mislove, Professor and Associate Dean, Northeastern University
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Colorado State University
Rada Mihalcea, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Jesse Kriss, Netflix
Katherine Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nari Johnson, Harvard College
Natalia Bilenko, Stitch Fix, Queer in AI, Resistance AI
Roger McNamee, Author, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners
Bethany Edmunds, Director of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Jacob Danovitch, McGill University, Mila
Douglas H. King, Senior Research Programmer — The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Michelle Greene, Bates College
Mansour AlAnsari, AI/ML Team Fellow at the World Economic Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR)
Roger Allan Ford, Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire; Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project
Jasmine McNealy, Associate Professor, University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications
Kristin Branson, Group Leader, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Michael Correll, Senior Research Staff, Tableau Software
Henry M. Clever, Ph.D. Candidate and Roboticist, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karen Frost-Arnold, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Erin McElroy, Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Now Institute, New York University
Melissa Kwan, Harvard CS Student
Lydia Daboussi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Kira Goldner, Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia; MD4SG Co-Founder
Carolyn Ge, Harvard Women in CS Co-President, Harvard College ‘22
Victoria Nwobodo, Technologist
Joana M. F. da Trindade, PhD Student, MIT CSAIL
Ben Dodge, Princeton University
Will Urmston, Software Engineer
Sarah Mohamed, Software Engineer
Ruha Benjamin, Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Alex Lu, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Hyunjin Seo, Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK
Khalid Kadir, PhD, Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Yousif Hassan, Science and Technology Studies Program, York University
Camille Francois , Graphika
William H. Hsu, Professor, Kansas State University
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Tarcizio Silva, Tech + Society Fellow, Mozilla Foundation
Nicholas Proferes, Assistant Professor of Critical Data Studies, Arizona State University
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Scott A. George, MIDS, Energy and Sustainability Data Scientist
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