Chinasa T. Okolo

Chinasa T. Okolo, Ph.D., is the Founder and Scientific Director of Technēcultură, a former Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and a recent Computer Science Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University. Her research focuses on AI governance and safety for the Global Majority, datafication and algorithmic marginalization, and the geopolitical impacts of AI. Dr. Okolo has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in AI by TIME, honored in the inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 AI list, and advises numerous multilateral institutions, national governments, corporations, and nonprofits. Her research has been covered widely in media outlets and published at top-tier venues in human-computer interaction and sociotechnical computing.