Meet DAIR - Timnit Gebru

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# Timnit Gebru

Founder and Executive Director

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Dr. Timnit Gebru is DAIR’s founder and executive director.

[See Timnit's work](https://dair-institute.org/team/timnit-gebru/work/)

Dr. Timnit Gebru is DAIR’s founder and executive director. 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. Timnit also co-founded [Black in AI](http://blackinai.org/), a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI, and is on the board of [AddisCoder](http://addiscoder.com/), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian and Jamaican highschool students. She has received a number of accolades including being named one of [Nature’s Ten people who helped shape science](https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-03621-0/index.html) and one of [TIME 100’s most influential people](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177822/timnit-gebru/). She is currently writing _The View from Somewhere_, a memoir + manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities instead of one that is used for surveillance, warfare, and the centralization of power by Silicon Valley.

_Photo: Petros Teka_

[See Timnit's work](https://dair-institute.org/team/timnit-gebru/work/)