Curator and Featured Speakers:​

Dr. Avriel Epps

Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they) is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in Human Development at Harvard. Her work, supported by The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, and the National Center on Race and Digital Justice, delves into how bias in predictive technologies affects adolescent racial, gender, and sociopolitical identity development. As an educator, she has taught and designed courses on subjects like Digital Privacy, Data Science Ethics, and Adolescent Development. Avriel also co-leads AI4Abolition, an organization dedicated to increasing AI literacy and building open-source AI tools for marginalized communities. Her scholarship has not only appeared in academic journals and handbooks but has also reached wider audiences through publications like The Atlantic and the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary TikTok, Boom. Recently, she completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in Education with a concentration in Human Development and will begin her tenure as Assistant Professor of Fair and Responsible Data Science at Rutgers University in the Fall of 2025.

Henriette Cramer

Henriette Cramer is the co-founder of PaperMoon.AI, the AI safety startup that combines quantitative, large-scale data with in-depth, qualitative feedback from people to understand both "what" is happening and "why." Prior, she was Director of Algorithmic Impact and Responsibility at Spotify. Henriette has extensive product and research experience in recommenders, search, (ro)bot, voice, and advertising applications. She holds multiple patents, 60+ research publications, and a PhD revolving around Trust in AI from the University of Amsterdam. She is based in San Francisco.

Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles, CA. She has been on the frontlines of the abolitionist movement, building with Black Lives Matter, Justice LA, Dignity and Power Now, and Reform LA jails. Cullors is also the co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, the Founding Director of the Social and Environmental Arts MFA program at Prescott College, and the founder of The Center For Art and Abolition. With the mission to invite all of us to grow toward abolition through intergenerational healing work that centers on love, collective care, and art, Cullor's current work and practice focus on "Abolitionist Aesthetics." A recipient of numerous awards for her art and activism, her work has been featured throughout Los Angeles and across the globe.

John Lopez

John Lopez started his career covering entertainment and the arts for Grantland, Vanity Fair, and Business Week, among others. He was an associate producer on Hossein Amini's adaptation of The Two Faces of January and has written for Paramount +'s Strange Angel, Netflix's Seven Seconds and Amazon's The Terminal List. He participated as a Writers Guild of America's AI working group member in the run-up to their 2023 contraction negotiations.