CATHY O´NEIL

Cathy O'Neil is an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org. In 2016, her book Weapons of Math Destruction was published and long-listed for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. O'Neil attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999, and afterward held positions in the mathematics departments of MIT and Barnard College, doing research in arithmetic algebraic geometry. 

MEREDITH BROUSSARD

Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an assistant professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.” She is an affiliate faculty member at the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, a 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow. She has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. 

SILKIE CARLO

Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, is monitoring the trial use of facial recognition technology by the UK police.   Prior to Big Brother Watch, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a program on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. She previously worked for Edward Snowden’s official defense fund and whistleblowers at risk. She has worked to uphold rights in the fields of state surveillance, policing technologies, big data, artificial intelligence and free expression online. She is the co-author of Information Security for Journalists.

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; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, Harper’s, and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. She was a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a 2016-2017 Fellow at New America. She lives in Troy, NY.

RAVI NAIK

Ravi Naik, the Law Society’s 2018 Human Rights Lawyer of the Year, is a multi-award winning Partner, with a groundbreaking practice at the forefront of data rights and technology. These include the first case against Cambridge Analytica for political profiling, claims against Facebook for their data practices, challenges to financial blacklisting, through to numerous precedent setting judicial reviews. Ravi also regularly provides commentary in the media on a range of issues, including the Guardian, CNN, the Daily Mail, the BBC, WIRED, and the Telegraph.

SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE

Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). She is quoted for her expertise on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias by international press including The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, USA Today, Wired, Time, and The New York Times. 

ZEYNEP TUFEKCI

Dr. Zeynep Tufekci is an Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and a regular contributor to the New York Times op-ed section and Wired. She has an affiliate appointment with the UNC Department of Sociology and is a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of Twitter and Teargas. Originally from Turkey, and formerly a computer programmer, she is also increasingly known for her work on "big data" and algorithmic decision-making.