Mutale Nkonde
Contributing Op-Ed Writer
Mutale Nkonde is an AI policy advisor and founder and CEO of AI for the People, a nonprofit that seeks to use popular culture to increase support for policies to reduce algorithmic bias. Nkonde has held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Notre Dame and is completing a master’s program at Columbia University. Learn more about her work at aiforthepeopleus.org(opens in a new tab). Follow her @mutalenkonde(opens in a new tab) on Twitter and @mutalenkonde2(opens in a new tab) on Instagram.
In 2019 Nkonde led a team that endorsed and recommended the Algorithmic Accountability Act to the U.S. House of Representatives and is currently providing input to the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent on related issues, in addition to contributing to the U.N. Secretary-General’s 3C Artificial Intelligence Roundtable on Digital Cooperation. Nkonde also provides policy advice to companies across Silicon Valley. In addition to regularly contributing to the Karen Hunter Show on SiriusXM Urban View, she writes a monthly column for Ms. magazine online(opens in a new tab) and has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Harvard Business Review.
