Date/Time: Friday, May 15th, 12pm-1:30pm EST
Panelist: Adrienne Williams, Community Centered Researcher, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Moderator: Dr. Meredith D. Clark
Adrienne started organizing in 2018 while working as a junior high teacher for a tech owned charter school. She expanded her organizing in 2020 after her work as an Amazon delivery driver allowed her to see that many of the same issues she saw in charter schools were also at Amazon. Since then she has worked both on the ground and behind the scenes with activists, politicians, researchers, and everyday people to enact positive change in the tech, labor, and education industries by educating the public on how these industries harm, and how that harm can be reversed. She hopes her unique experience working within and organizing against these industries helps promote a more equitable society. Adrienne is a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest with The OpEd Project in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, as well as a Research Fellow at both (DAIR) and Just Tech.