Advisor

Meredith Broussard

Dr. Meredith Broussard, a Data & Society advisor, is a professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and serves as the research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. Her award-winning books include More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech and Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her research focuses on investigative reporting with and about artificial intelligence. Dr. Broussard also works on AI ethics and is interested in data analysis for social good. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School. A former features editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, she has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. She appears in the Emmy-nominated documentary Coded Bias, and her features and essays have been published by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Vox, and other outlets.