Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde (she/her/hers) is a researcher and policy advisor advocating for policies and practices that reduce the expression of algorithmic bias in the design, deployment and governance in AI systems used in public life.

She is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, where her research focuses on far right narratives that migrate from white to Black communities across the globe. Which is inspired by her work over the last five years with the US Tik Tok Content Advisory Council, where she works alongside six other national experts on how online discourse impacts offline behavior.

Her work began when she became the lead advocate for the Algorithmic Accountability Act, which was first introduced to the US House of Representative in 2019, while she was a fellow at Data and Society. It’s major call is the inclusion of impact assessments in engineering workflows, so regulators can gain insight on the impact AI systems have on the American populace before market release. This act has been reintroduced in 2022 and 2023 and we hope will be reintroduced during the second Trump Term.

She consolidated this work after founding AI for the People, a global non profit that provides advisory services to major decision makers interested in responsible approaches to AI development. AI for the People has provided consultation services to the Biden Harris White House, the UN Business and Technology Project. And will be joining colleagues at UNESCO in Paris to discuss how the use of AI driven social media algorithms impact Black people’s access to democracy across the globe at their headquarters in Paris this June.

In 2025 AI for the People became shareholder activists, using their proxy votes to encourage the world’s largest AI developers to adopt responsible approaches to AI. Two of our earliest victories were voting for Microsoft to conduct environmental impact assessment on data centers And Apple voting to protect DEI initiatives.

Nkonde has a BSc. (Hons) in Sociology from Leeds Metropolitan University, a Masters Degree in American Studies from Columbia University. As well as formally holding fellowships at Harvard, Stanford and is currently a visiting policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.

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