Rashida Richardson
Distinguished Scholar of Technology & Policy
Assistant Professor, Law & Political Science
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Rashida Richardson is an Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science at Northeastern University. She is also a Distinguished Scholar of Technology and Policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Additionally, Richardson serves as senior counsel, artificial intelligence, at Mastercard. She has previously served as attorney advisor to the chair of the Federal Trade Commission and senior policy advisor for data and democracy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Professor Richardson 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. Her 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.
Professor 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, advisory board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and she is an affiliate and advisory board member of the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies.
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