Ibrahim Bechrouri is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa whose doctoral dissertation examined the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism policies, their impact on targeted communities, and the resistance strategies they deployed against surveillance and over-policing. His research has been presented at Yale, the University of California Berkeley, the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Sciences Po Paris, and Uppsala University. His work has been published in numerous academic journals, including Surveillance & Society, which awarded him the Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Award.<\/p>\n
Katie Conrad is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas. Her recent teaching focus has been on technology and culture and British and Irish modernism, and her literary and cultural scholarship focuses on the role of technology in mediating human experience and shaping political and ethical relationships. She serves as an associate editor for AI and Ethics (Springer) and Critical AI (Duke University Press). Over the past three years, she has spoken and written frequently on AI and ethics, critical AI literacy, and AI risk. She is also a musician, artist, and zinemaker.<\/p>\n
Melanie Dusseau is an associate professor of English at the University of Findlay in Ohio, where she teaches creative writing workshops in poetry and genre fiction. She\u2019s published technocritical essays in Inside Higher Ed and the zine LOOMING, and keeps resistance company with the Library of Babel Group. A poet and novelist, she also facilitates a summer study abroad program, Celtic Scholars, that encourages experiential, automation-free learning via travel, archival research at academic libraries abroad, and cultural immersion.<\/p>\n
Nina Simone Edwards is the Technology and Research Librarian at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her scholarship examines privacy, technology governance, and information justice, with particular attention to how race, vulnerability, and digital access shape experiences of surveillance and cybersecurity harms. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgetown Law’s Tech Institute, and earned a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from The Catholic University of America. She received her J.D. from Georgetown Law.<\/p>\n
Marc T.J Elliott is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin whose research examines how AI reshapes human decision-making, institutions, and society. His interdisciplinary work spans computer science, public policy, governance, computational social science, law, and digital health technologies. His current research explores AI as a temporal actor and asks how increasingly datafied and automated systems can be designed to preserve meaningful human judgement and autonomy. Alongside this, Marc works with the Trinity Unit of Neurology to support a longitudinal cohort study in evaluating novel digital health & AI technologies for monitoring functional decline in people living with ALS.<\/p>\n
Anna Feuer is an assistant teaching professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of California San Diego. Her research is in international security, focusing on war, ethics, and the natural environment. Current projects address the dynamics of environmental warfare; the environmental history of American counterinsurgency; and ethical and legal questions associated with the use of AI technologies on the battlefield. Feuer received a PhD in Political Science from Yale. Before joining UC San Diego, she was the Julian Steward Chair of the Social Sciences at Deep Springs College.<\/p>\n
George Fletcher is a professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science faculty at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), where he is chair of the research group on Database systems and head of the Data & AI cluster. He studies data systems as socio-technical interventions, working towards making better data systems, for broader people-centered understandings of “better.\u201d More details can be found at https:\/\/gfletche.win.tue.nl.<\/p>\n
Ifat Gazia is a communication scholar whose PhD research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst examined how people, histories, and political realities are obscured across digital platforms, drawing on ethnographic work with Uyghur communities. She has held fellowships at Princeton\u2019s Just Data Lab, USC\u2019s Annenberg Innovation Lab, and the University of Colorado Boulder\u2019s Center for Media, Religion and Culture.<\/p>\n
Justin Hendrix is CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. Previously, he was Executive Director of NYC Media Lab. He spent over a decade at The Economist in roles including Vice President of Business Development & Innovation. He is an adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a lecturer at Cornell Tech, and serves on the editorial board at Just Security.<\/p>\n
Mario Hibert is a Full Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Information Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences from the University of Zagreb and an MA in Human Rights and Democracy from Sarajevo and Bologna. His research spans critical librarianship, information ethics, and postdigital education. He co-developed Sarajevo Canton’s media literacy strategy and served as Editor-in-Chief of Open Information Science (2020\u20132025).<\/p>\n
Rachel Hong is a final-year PhD student at the University of Washington and is currently a visiting AI Policy Fellow at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the legal and societal implications of the construction of large-scale generative AI systems through the lens of privacy, fairness, and transparency. Her work audits web-scraping practices and empirical AI evaluations, through collaborations with legal scholars to tie technical results to legal frameworks and ongoing AI regulation.<\/p>\n
Anil Kalhan is a Professor of Law at Drexel University and a Distinguished Fellow at the Privacy Center at Georgetown Law. He has written and taught in areas including immigration law, constitutional law, privacy and surveillance, and international human rights, and he has worked extensively on academic freedom issues in a variety of capacities. His scholarship has examined themes including the growing and transformative use of surveillance technologies for immigration control purposes and issues that arise when legal regimes span periods of authoritarian and democratic rule.<\/p>\n
Kylin Puck Lo is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and Research Director of Community Justice Exchange. Community Justice Exchange works with organizers who fight state violence, incarceration, social control, criminalization, and surveillance.<\/p>\n
Suzanne Maguire is an Instruction Librarian at San Diego State University where she supports student research in undergraduate writing courses. Her recent publications explore the importance of process in student research and the intersection of reading literacy and information literacy. She is interested in exploring ways to integrate relational practices in student inquiry and research. In her work she strives to engender a research culture of care and joy.<\/p>\n
Dr. Nathalie Mar\u00e9chal studies technofascism and how we can fight back to protect and bolster democracy and human rights. She is Managing Policy Director at the Institute for Information, the Internet & Democracy at Northeastern University and a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights. She is also on the Board of Directors of Check My Ads, on the Advisory Councils of Open Media and the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, and a contributor to Tech Policy Press.<\/p>\n
Latifa Mbarak is an interdisciplinary researcher who approaches the emergent question of datafication from a discontent with the development world’s emphasis on data, evidence, and empiricism. This quest has naturally led her to probe more deeply into the nature of knowledge, memory, and identity. Latifa has over seven years of experience as a development practitioner working across a myriad of thematic areas and contexts, including health, socioeconomic inclusion, and education.<\/p>\n
Narcisse Mbunzama works at the intersection of A.I., data science, digital innovation, and cybersecurity at the Digital Security Group, where he focuses on developing data-driven solutions to address complex societal and technological challenges. His interests span machine learning, epidemic intelligence, open data ecosystems, and digital resilience across the Global South.<\/p>\n
David McNeill was the Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College from 2015-2020. Prior to coming to Deep Springs, he taught at the University of Essex (in the UK), Hofstra University, Grinnell College, St. Mary\u2019s College, CA and the University of Chicago. He is the author of An Image of the Soul in Speech: Plato and the Problem of Socrates (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), and academic articles on Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Nietzsche, Hegel and contemporary Critical Theory. Since leaving Deep Springs he has worked as an independent writer and researcher focusing on topics in philosophy of mind and philosophy of law.<\/p>\n
In 2002, Chris Miciek began building the first 100% online career center in the US, pioneering online technology and social media to deliver career development advising and instruction. Since then, he’s presented at state and regional ACEs as well as NACE on online career services and emerging technology, including creating a keynote technology panel at MWACE 2007 and leading a NACE President’s 2009 Tech Summit. He\u2019s authored and co-presented numerous articles, workshops, podcasts, and webinars on AI and Work for professional associations while contributing to and leading committees on technology and on ethics. He continues to stare at the horizon.<\/p>\n
Paul Ohm is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. In his research, service, and teaching, Professor Ohm builds bridges between computer science and law, utilizing his training and experience as a lawyer, policymaker, computer programmer, and network systems administrator. His research focuses on information privacy, computer crime law, surveillance, technology and the law, and artificial intelligence and the law. Professor Ohm has published landmark articles about the failure of anonymization, the Fourth Amendment and new technology, and broadband privacy. His work has defined fields of scholarly inquiry and influenced policymakers around the world.<\/p>\n
Seema N. Patel is an Associate Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, where she studies the datafication of low-wage work and its consequences for labor and employment law. Her scholarship combines legal analysis with qualitative research to examine how workplace technologies reshape economic policy, worker power, and the state-worker relationship. Her writing has appeared in California Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Maryland Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law. She previously served as Deputy Director of San Francisco’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and as a Senior Advisor to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.<\/p>\n
Itay Ravid (JSD, Stanford Law School) is a professor of law and Reuschlein Emerging Scholar at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. His scholarship examines the connections between criminal law, technology, and society, often through empirical methods, with attention to the criminal legal system in an era of digital democracy. His recent work asks where the individual stands in an increasingly automated criminal legal system\u2014one in which coercive judgment gives way to computational prediction. His research has won several prizes and appears in leading law reviews.<\/p>\n
Jenna Ruddock (she\/they) is a writer and organizer who has been researching, reporting on, and supporting community organizing against industrial infrastructure projects for over a decade. She currently serves as Advocacy Director at Free Press and is adjunct faculty at American University Washington College of Law. Her research into and reporting on the evolution of community resistance to data centers as industrial infrastructure in the U.S.\u2014with a focus on legal tools, their weaponization, and their limitations\u2014is the subject of her current book project for the Co-Opting AI series with UC Press.<\/p>\n
Peter Schmidt is the co-founder and Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention in Brooklyn, New York. His writing on attention, education, and politics has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, and elsewhere. He is a co-editor of Attensity!<\/em> A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, published by Crown in January 2026.<\/p>\n Dr. Breauna Spencer is the Inaugural Technology Policy Fellow for the NAACP National Staff, where she leads policy-adjacent research on AI ethics, emerging technologies, and their societal impacts, particularly on marginalized communities. She\u2019s an interdisciplinary scholar with 15+ years of experience at the intersection of technology, education, and public policy, and has received more than 80 awards and fellowships from organizations including the National Science Foundation, Google, and the American Evaluation Association.<\/p>\n Dr. Alexander Thompson is a legal historian working at the University of Glasgow, where he specialises in the history of law in the 19th century; he is also a qualified high school mathematics teacher. In his spare time, he researches the history of English literature exams in Scotland and England.<\/p>\n Ellina Yin is the Founder and CEO of Dreaming Collaborative, a civic tech nonprofit working at the intersection of culture, technology, and civic life to reimagine democracy in local government. Ellina works across art, technology, and lawmaking to create new forms of civic participation. Currently, she is working with UC Berkeley\u2019s Human Rights Center Investigation Lab on AI data center developments, translating academic research into a civic action resource for communities. Previously, she worked on the successful 2022 Measure I ballot initiative in San Jos\u00e9 and is a Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Program alumna, where she explored the impacts of AI on government and communities.<\/p>\n Lucy Zhang is a doctoral research fellow at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at Teachers College, Columbia University. 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