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We love hearing from listeners, so reach out to either Kerry at kam83[at]cam.ac.uk or Eleanor at ed575[at]cam.ac.uk!
Dr Kerry McInerney (née Mackereth) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Research Fellow at the AI Now Institute, a leading AI policy thinktank in New York.
Kerry has given numerous keynotes and worked with companies and NGOs to address how AI can create and exacerbate gender and racial inequality. She is a leading voice on feminism in the tech industry, co-hosting The Good Robot Podcast on feminism and technology and co-editing two books: Feminist AI and The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism.
Kerry also founded and co-chairs The Global Politics of AI research stream on how AI is impacting international relations, shedding light on the complex geopolitics of AI.
She is an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker and regularly appears on radio and in international media to provide expert comment on AI trends, from AI beauty pageants to the rise of AI in the workplace. Through radio and podcasting, she breaks down complex political topics for wide audiences in an informative and engaging way.
Her cutting-edge research has been covered by the BBC, The Guardian, Forbes, The Telegraph, and other international outlets. She was selected as one of 2022’s 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022 and one of Computing’s Rising Stars 30 in 2023.
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Kerry Mackereth
DR ELEANOR DRAGE
Eleanor was previously a Christina Gaw Research Associate on the Gender and Technology Research Project, where she helped resolve AI ethics issues at a major technology multinational using feminist and anti-racist theory. She has presented findings to a range of audiences including the United Nations, NatWest, The Open Data Institute (ODI), and the Institute of Science & Technology. She is the co-host of The Good Robot Podcast, has appeared on popular shows such as The Guilty Feminist, and is a TikToker for All The Citizens' data rights channel. She holds an International Dual PhD from the University of Bologna at the University of Granada, where she was an Early-Stage Researcher for the EU Horizon 2020 ETN-ITN-Marie Curie project “GRACE” (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe).
As part of this project Eleanor helped develop a software application that transmitted intersectional feminist ideas and methodologies to the general public. Her current research, which has been published in top journals such as Philosophy and Technology, investigates how humanity defines and constitutes itself both through socio-cultural processes such as race and gender and through its connection with computational networks and digital systems. She is the co-editor of the upcoming collection Feminist AI with Oxford University Press. Her other projects can be found at www.eleanordrage.com and she can be contacted at ed575@cam.ac.uk
Nomisha is The Good Robot's Youth Inclusion Consultant, and is working with Kerry and Eleanor on developing innovative teaching services and educational programs from The Good Robot podcast. Nomisha is a Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge. She is currently researching the role of human-centred design in empathy-driven technology and presented her work on children's wellbeing at the UNESCO Artificial Intelligence and Education Forum. She recently became the first Education researcher to win the Cambridge Applied Research Award for "outstanding research with real world application", for designing and delivering interventions for 286 low-income and state-school students across the UK to widen participation in higher education. Previously, as a Yale University Henry Fellow, she used international human rights law to design an anti-bullying framework for marginalised youth. Her work has most recently been published in the Oxford Review of Education, the British Educational Research Journal, and the International Journal of Human Rights.
Her writing on trauma-informed technology has also been featured by Harvard University's REACH (Research, Education, and Action to create Change and Hope) Initiative. She co-chairs the University of Cambridge Wellbeing and Inclusion Special Interest Group and previously co-chaired the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group. She has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, Plan International and International Alert with regard to addressing youth disadvantage, building positive adult-child relationships in high-poverty settings, and caring for young children's wellbeing in humanitarian and fragile settings. Feel welcome to connect with her on LinkedIn here.
