Miami, Florida. Karen Hao is the senior AI reporter at the MIT Technology Review. Previously, she received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and worked as an application engineer for a year. She then switched to journalism, writing for the Sierra Club’s magazine, then Mother Jones and Quartz before…

San Francisco Bay Area, California. Jungwon Byun is the COO and co-founder of Ought, a research lab that builds tools applying machine learning to human reasoning and decision-making. Prior to that, she spent four years leading growth at Upstart, an online lending company that underwrites personal loans to expand access…

Los Angeles, California. Dara Oke is currently a Product Design Lead at Netflix. She’s also the founder of Afriquette, a media platform that tells stories of identity, culture, and creativity across Africa and its diaspora. Before that, she spent a few years living and working in West and Southern Africa…