Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Inioluwa Deborah Raji is an Academic Fellow at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and was formerly a Senior Trustworthy AI Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation. She has worked closely with industry, civil society and within academia to push forward various projects to operationalize ethical considerations in machine learning practice, and push forward benchmarking and model evaluation norms in the field. In particular, she aims to study how model engineering choices (from evaluation to data choices) impact consumer protection, product liability, procurement, anti-discrimination practice and other forms of legal and institutional accountability related to functional harms. She is on the advisory boards for the Center for Democracy and Technology AI Governance Lab, the Health AI Partnership, REALML and the Center for Civil Rights and Technology. For her efforts, she has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30, MIT Tech Review 35 Under 35 Innovators and the TIME 100 Most Influential in AI. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Tech For Humanity Prize, and the 2024 Mozilla Rise 25 award, as well as the co-recipient of the EFF Pioneer Barlow Award with Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru. She received her Bachelors of Applied Science in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto. She is currently completing her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.