Susan Gonzales

CEO, AIandYou

Susan Gonzales, CEO, brings over 20 years of experience in technology, community outreach and policy to AIandYou.  Susan spent most of her career in senior policy roles leading community outreach to diverse populations, creating partnerships and educating influencers about technology.  She is a former Director at Facebook where she created and led Community Engagement for the company on the policy team.  She also served in leadership roles at Comcast, tech start-ups, and consumer goods companies.  Susan launched AIandYou when she realized a chasm existed between the AI ecosystem and communities of color.  She created a global, bi-lingual platform of accessible and easy to understand information about AI.  Susan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.aiandyou.org

Brenda Leong

Senior Counsel and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics , Future of Privacy Forum

Brenda Leong, CIPP/US, is Senior Counsel and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the Future of Privacy Forum. She oversees development of privacy analysis of AI and Machine Learning technologies, manages the FPF portfolio on biometrics and digital identity, particularly facial recognition, along with the ethics challenges of these emerging systems. She works on industry standards and collaboration on privacy and responsible data management, by partnering with stakeholders and advocates to reach practical solutions for consumer and commercial data uses. Prior to working at FPF, Brenda served in the U.S. Air Force, including policy and legislative affairs work from the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of State. She is a 2014 graduate of George Mason University School of Law.

Irina Raicu

Director, Internet Ethics Program , Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Center. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (U.S.) and was formerly an attorney in private practice. Her work addresses a wide variety of issues, ranging from online privacy to net neutrality, from data ethics to social media’s impact on friendship and family, from the digital divide to the ethics of encryption, and from the ethics of artificial intelligence to the right to be forgotten. She holds a J.D. degree from Santa Clara University’s School of Law, as well as a bachelor’s degree in English from U.C. Berkeley and a master’s degree in English and American Literature from San Jose State University.

Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, U.S.A. Today, MarketWatch, Slate, the Huffington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Recode.

Raicu is a member of the Partnership on AI’s Working Group on Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI. In collaboration with the staff of the High Tech Law Institute, Raicu manages  the ongoing “IT, Ethics, and Law” lecture series, which has brought to campus speakers such as journalist Julia Angwin, ethicists Luciano Floridi and Patrick Lin, and then-FTC commissioner Julie Brill.

She tweets at @IEthics and is the primary contributor to the blog Internet Ethics: Views from Silicon Valley.

As a teenager, Raicu came to the U.S. with her family as a refugee; her background informs her interest in the Internet as a tool whose use has profound ethical implications worldwide.

Anne Toth

Director, Alexa Trust, Amazon