The Tasker Center for Accessible Technology
AccessMap is an AI-powered online travel planner built on top of OpenSidewalks, which logs the physical features of sidewalk infrastructure, to help people with disabilities plan and navigate any trip. It's the creation of The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT), an initiative of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at University of Washington that works to translate novel research and technologies for use by populations with disabilities.
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Meier Galblum Haigh
Meier Galblum Haigh (they/them) is Founder and Executive Director of the Disability Culture Lab. They are a nonbinary disabled human with 15+ years of experience at the intersection of movement building, media, and communications. They specialize in big narrative change and vision-first communications. Galblum Haigh co-founded not-for-profit social justice PR firm Megaphone Strategies with Van Jones’ Dream Corps, which served over 80 progressive candidates, movements, and social impact organizations. In five years, the team Meier built and co-ran elected now Secretary Deb Haaland to Congress, launched She the People, supported movements like the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter, and helped pass legislation to protect workers across numerous states with the Working Families Party — from securing paid sick days to universal pre-k and paid leave to increasing the minimum wage. Galblum Haigh has served as a Senior Advisor with New Disabled South for the last year and is an alum of Center for Popular Democracy, FitzGibbon Media, 350.org, the Obama for America Campaign, and numerous Democratic Party campaigns at the state and local level.
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The Aula Fellowship for AI Science, Tech, and Policy aims for the responsible proliferation of AI. The organization works to get bring underrepresented voices into the AI conversation. Fellows conduct research, develop tech, and engage in policy making on a global and local level.
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Dr. Melanie Walsh
Melanie Walsh is an assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. She investigates how data, computational methods, and AI shape contemporary culture (literature, music, art, etc.), and how they can be used to understand culture in turn. She is co-PI of the NEH-funded AI for Humanists project, which makes recent advances in artificial intelligence accessible so that humanities researchers and the general public may be positioned to make use of — and critique — these important new computational language technologies. Walsh was also a Mozilla Responsible Computing Challenge awardee.
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Climate Change AI (CCAI) is an organization composed of volunteers from academia and industry who believe that tackling climate change requires concerted societal action and that machine learning can play an impactful role in that ation. An addition to championing legislation and leading conferences, CCAI also organizes a summer school program covering AI in energy, land use, climate science, economics, and policy, as well as questions around AI ethics, regulation, and environmental footprint. CCAI also offers scholarships for Black and Indigenous folks through funding from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
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