Becca Ricks is the community manager for the Public Technology Leadership Collaborative. She is a researcher, technologist, and artist whose work explores how people interact with algorithms, with a focus on algorithmic power, control, and agency. Previously, she was the head of open source research at the Mozilla Foundation, where she led investigative research on the societal impact of AI systems and contributed to tech policy conversations globally. She has served on steering committees for the Partnership on AI’s ABOUT ML project and the Ford Foundation’s public interest technology network. She completed a technology fellowship at Human Rights Watch in 2018.

Becca’s artistic practice is rooted in material and digital experimentation, which lately has meant developing 3D knits on a hacked vintage knitting machine. She is also a co-founder of tendernet, an art collective examining critical AI futures through speculative workshops.