Organizers

Kathy Baxter is an Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce with 20 years of experience in the tech industry. She develops research-informed best practice to educate Salesforce employees, customers, and the industry on the development of ethical AI. You can read about her research on the Salesforce UX Medium channel. She received her MS in Engineering Psychology and a BS degree in Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The second edition of her book, "Understanding your users," was published in May 2015.

Danielle Cass is a Director of Silicon Valley Initiative at Amnesty International, which explores how to mitigate the risks of technologies that pose a human rights issue, and how to leverage technologies to protect human rights and human rights defenders. She led engagement with the tech sector (Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Partnership on AI, etc.) in the creation and roll-out of the Toronto Declaration to provide a human rights foundation for emerging law and policy responses to tackling bias in artificial intelligence. The Toronto Declaration outlines how both governments and companies should protect the right to equality and prevent discrimination when developing and using machine learning systems, as required under existing human rights law and standards.

Kathy Pham is a Fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard University, and Fellow in Residence at the Mozilla Foundation, co-leading the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. She also is part of the Ethics and Governance of AI initiative between Harvard and the MIT Media Lab. Before this, Kathy spent over a decade in industry and the federal government at Google, IBM, and the United States Digital Service at the White House. Kathy holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Supelec.

Molly Wright Steenson is the K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University & Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts. She is the author of Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT Press, 2017), which traces the history of AI’s impact on design and architecture, and the co-editor of the forthcoming book Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press, Fall 2019). Her first career in tech and early UX started in 1994 at companies like Netscape, Reuters, and Razorfish. She holds a PhD in Architecture from Princeton University.