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 power, control, and agency. Previously, Becca was the head of open source research at Mozilla Foundation, where she led investigative research on the societal impact of AI systems. Becca was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, and 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 is also a co-founder of tendernet, an art/tech collective examining critical AI futures through speculative workshops. She holds a master’s degree from NYU, where her research explored algorithmic categorization.