A curated, searchable database of women of colour working in AI safety, AI governance, and algorithmic justice — from Lagos to London, Nairobi to New York.
AI Safety
Timnit Gebru
DAIR Institute · Ethiopia / USA
Governance
Amba Kak
AI Now Institute · India / USA
Alg. Justice
Joy Buolamwini
AJL · Ghana / USA
From the Catalogue
Founder, DAIR Institute
🌍 Ethiopia / USA
Pioneer in AI ethics and algorithmic bias research. Co-authored foundational work on dataset documentation and facial recognition disparities. Founded DAIR to centre community-based AI research.
View Profile →Mozilla Fellow / UC Berkeley
🌍 Nigeria / USA
Known for auditing commercial AI systems and exposing their failures in real-world deployment. Instrumental in shaping how AI accountability is practiced and governed.
View Profile →Professor, UCLA
🌎 USA
Author of Algorithms of Oppression. Her research exposes how search engines and AI systems encode and amplify racial and gender bias against Black women and marginalised communities.
View Profile →PhD Researcher, King's College London
🇬🇧 UK
Researching Black women's digital intimacy and online experiences. Examines how platforms shape and constrain the digital lives of Black British women. UK-based emerging voice.
View Profile →Researchers working on the safety of AI systems — alignment, robustness, evaluation, and risk — from a justice-informed perspective.
Policy makers, lawyers, and advocates shaping how AI is regulated, who it serves, and how power over AI systems is distributed.
Academics and practitioners challenging how algorithms and data systems reproduce and amplify racial, gender, and economic inequality.
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Submit Your Profile"When we design for those at the sharpest intersections of oppression, we build infrastructure that works for everyone." — Black Women Best Framework, Janelle Jones (2020)