Mutale Nkonde — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Chief Executive Officer at AI for the People since 2019.
Founded AI for the People, a nonprofit aimed at reducing algorithmic bias.
Pursuing a Ph.D. in digital humanities as a Harding distinguished postgraduate scholar at the University of Cambridge.
Co-authored the 2019 article "Advancing Racial Literacy in Tech."
Supported the drafting of the "Algorithmic Accountability Act" in 2019.
Won a New York Emmy Award in 2021 for storytelling on a news segment covering facial recognition.
Served as a fellow at both the Harvard Law School Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society and the civil society lab at Stanford University in 2019.

Biography

Mutale Nkonde is a Zambian journalist and artificial intelligence policy researcher. She is the Chief Executive Officer of AI for the People, a nonprofit she founded with the mission of reducing algorithmic bias. Currently, Nkonde is pursuing a Ph.

D. in digital humanities as a Harding distinguished postgraduate scholar at the University of Cambridge, where her research focuses on human resilience to the unintended negative impacts of AI technologies on social life.