This profile has not been claimed and data may not be accurate.
55th percentile
MIT researcher and founder whose Gender Shades work reshaped AI accountability
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 97th percentile
- Published landmark research 'Gender Shades' exposing racial and gender bias in commercial AI systems, with 4,619 citations across 10 works (OpenAlex h-index 8).
- Wikidata entity (Q31359093) exists for Joy Buolamwini, confirming her public notability as a computer scientist and digital activist.
- Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 8 and 4,619 citations across 10 works, affiliated with MIT.
Relationship Matrix
Most Like You
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, an AI accountability nonprofit she has led since 2016.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata entity (Q31359093) exists for Joy Buolamwini, confirming her public notability as a computer scientist and digital activist.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)ajlunited.org ranks #754,670 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 8 and 4,619 citations across 10 works, affiliated with MIT.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Published landmark research 'Gender Shades' exposing racial and gender bias in commercial AI systems, with 4,619 citations across 10 works (OpenAlex h-index 8).
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that connect you with major philanthropic program officers, policy-minded technologists, and institutional research partners who can extend AJL's reach without requiring you to be in every room. Small, high-trust dinners with foundation decision-makers and UN/EU adjacent policy builders are your highest-leverage format. You'd also benefit from peer gatherings with other solo nonprofit founders navigating the same operational bottlenecks around delegation, hiring, and sustainability.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA closed dinner with MacArthur, Ford Foundation, and Open Society program officers actively deploying AI accountability grants, focused on what independent auditing orgs need to scale
- positioningA roundtable with fellow UN and European Commission AI advisors to align on shared auditing standards and position AJL as the default independent compliance body ahead of the EU AI Act enforcement wave
- introsA research dinner with Oxford Skoll Accelerator Fellows and MIT Media Lab affiliates to formalize co-authorship pipelines on AI auditing standards and expand each other's citation and policy networks
- hiringA small roundtable with founders of high-credibility nonprofit tech orgs like Data & Society and AI Now Institute on how they recruited their first senior policy director and lead researcher without diluting mission
- tacticalA dinner with Chief Ethics Officers and General Counsels from Fortune 500 firms actively seeking third-party AI bias audits, to pressure-test AJL's enterprise auditing service pricing and scope
- tacticalA tactical workshop with founders who have converted high-profile books or research into certified online courses — think Coursera and Maven alumni — to map a revenue-generating certification program built on Unmasking AI
- wellbeingA private dinner for solo founders running high-visibility advocacy or research organizations — think Timnit Gebru of DAIR and similar — to share honest frameworks for delegation, operational boundaries, and protecting deep work time