Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini was born in 1989 and still alive to this day. Buolamwini was awarded a masters degree in media arts & Sciences from MIT in 2017, later she would earn a PhD degree in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. She had a thesis on Facing the Coded Gaze with Evocative Adults and Algorithmic Adults.

Joy Buolamwini contributions to computer Science was that she founded the Algorithmic Justice League. The Algorithmic Justice League is an organization that works to challenge decision-making software and research the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence. Buolamwini presents her research at the United Nations and serves on the Global Tech Panel. This event was set up by the vice president of the European Commission and her presentation was called, AI, Aint I a Woman?

Joy Buolamwini proceed to show all the AI failures on woman faces and using as examples like Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Buolamwini had a list of 100 inspiring and influential women. But it is cool how she was able to discover all this and how she describes herself: I am a poet of code on a mission to show compassion through computation.

Joy Buolamwini : Awards | Carnegie Corporation of New York