Rashida Richardson

Rashida Richardson is as an assistant professor of law and political science within Northeastern University School of Law and the Department of Political Science within the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. She specializes in race, emerging technologies and the law and is a senior fellow in the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund. Richardson’s research focuses on the social and civil rights implications of data-driven technologies, including artificial intelligence, and develops policy interventions and regulatory strategies regarding data-driven technologies, government surveillance, racial discrimination and the technology sector. Richardson recently Professor Richardson is on leave to serve as attorney advisor to the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. She also served as senior policy advisor for data and democracy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Richardson previously served as a visiting scholar at Rutgers Law School and Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law and as director of policy research at New York University’s AI Now Institute, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of New York and staff attorney at the Center for HIV Law and Policy. She currently serves on the board of directors of Lacuna Technologies, board of trustees of Wesleyan University, the advisory board of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, the board of directors of the College & Community Fellowship, advisory council of Foxglove, advisory board for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and she is an affiliate and advisory board member of the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies.