No Tech For Apartheid: Panel

Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of tech workers in both enabling and dismantling apartheid, and what you can do to support Palestinians.

***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***

Speakers:

Caroline Hunter co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.

Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s policy & advocacy work on digital rights in MENA region.

Mona Shtaya is Campaigns & Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Action. She was also advocacy & communications manager at 7amleh.

Ariel Koren was pushed out of Google for advocacy on the #NoTechForAparthied and Drop Nimbus campaigns.

Antony Loewenstein is the author of The Palestine Laboratory.

Matt Mahmoudi is Researcher/Adviser on Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Amnesty Tech, and co-author of Digital Witness. He is a professor at University of Cambridge.

Timnit Gebru (moderator) is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team.

Alex Hanna (moderator) is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality.

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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Palestine Legal and Respond Crisis Translation