Joy Buolamwini

Gender shades : intersectional phenotypic and demographic evaluation of face datasets and gender classifiers (2017) Facing the Coded Gaze with Evocative Audits and Algorithmic Audits (2022) Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Canadian-American computer scientist and digital activist formerly based at the MIT Media Lab.[2] She founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), an organization that works to challenge bias in decision-making software, using art, advocacy, and research to highlight the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI).[3][4] Buolamwini was born in Edmonton, Alberta, grew up in Mississippi, and attended Cordova High School in Cordova, Tennessee.[5] At the age of nine, she was inspired by Kismet, the MIT robot, and taught herself XHTML, JavaScript and PHP.[6][7] As a student-athlete, she was a competitive pole vaulter[8] and played basketball. In a podcast episode she recorded on Brené Brown's show "Dare to Lead", she recalls completing her AP Physics homework between basketball break times.[9] As an undergraduate, Buolamwini studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she researched health informatics.[10] She graduated as a Stamps President's Scholar[11] from Georgia Tech in 2012,[12] and was the youngest finalist of the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize in 2009.[13]