July 2023 Responsible Tech Mixer Recap: Summer Celebration 🎉

(July 28, 2023, New York, NY) All Tech Is Human is delighted to release its panel discussion featuring Flynn Coleman, Ginny Fahs, Danielle Sutton, Kristina Francis, and moderator Rebekah Tweed from All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer: Summer Celebration at Betaworks in New York City on Wednesday, July 26, 2023.

All Tech Is Human, a 501c3 organization dedicated to building the Responsible Tech Movement, is thrilled to announce more than 200 people came out for our Responsible Tech Mixer: Summer Celebration on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in New York City.

The Responsible Tech Mixer: Summer Celebration was the fifth gathering in All Tech Is Human’s 2023 Responsible Tech Mixer Speaker Series at Betaworks in New York City. The gathering focused on career pathways and empowerment in Responsible Tech. It featured a panel discussion featuring international human rights attorney Flynn Coleman, Director, Product R&D at Consumer Reports Ginny Fahs, Deloitte Senior Consultant and Trustworthy AI Strategist Danielle Sutton, JFF Executive Director Kristina Francis, and was moderated by All Tech Is Human Associate Director Rebekah Tweed.

The Responsible Tech Movement is built on a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. JFF Executive Director Kristina Francis spoke to how this is aligned with her career mission.

“I tell people a lot of times at my mission in life is to make sure that people can live in their genius. I say it all the time, and so I said that even before I went to JFF. And when we talk about walking through the door and allowing life to kind of bring you to the area that allows you to live your mission. That's what JFF allows me to do. And for me it is making sure that everyone in this room, all the people in different communities, those who are suffering, that we can come together as a people, as a community, as a humanity, and make sure that people can live in the way that gives them dignity and allows them to give the gifts and talents to the world.”

A wide range of backgrounds and perspective empowers the Responsible Tech Movement. From consideration to implementation, the vision for a responsible tech future is contributing to a broad ecosystem of individuals working to co-create a better future. International human rights attorney Flynn Coleman highlighted the importance of contributing to the collective.

“A lot is this idea that ultimately we can't take any of what we do just for ourselves with us, right? What we do for ourselves dies with us…We live very much in an individualist culture. And that can bring incredible innovation and incredible independence. But thinking about this collective community, legacy I think is incredibly important. And it also takes the pressure off having to do all of these things for ourselves because what we do for ourselves dies with us. What, what could we give away? What could we take and then bring back to our communities?”

The panel features key insights about career journeys, the types of impact each career path can enable, and tips for people hoping to enter the field or transition to a new role.

All Tech Is Human launched its 2023 Responsible Tech Speaker Series in March 2023 to bring together a wide range of stakeholders working to co-create a better tech future as part of its 2023 Responsible Tech Mixer Speaker Series. Almost 2,000 unique people have signed up to attend monthly events in New York, which feature authors, technologists, youth advocates, trust and safety professionals, data advocates, and people working at the forefront of a responsible tech future. Our supporters include Atlantic Council, Tekalo, Mozilla, and Project Liberty. If you’d like to support an upcoming Responsible Tech Mixer series please reach out to hello at alltechishuman dot org.

About the panelists

Danielle Sutton is a Senior Consultant at Deloitte and Trustworthy AI Strategist. Danielle Sutton is a 5th generation Harlemite who is currently a Senior Consultant at Deloitte in their Government and Public Services Strategy & Analytics Practice. She has been with the firm for 4 years, focusing her work on the intersection of Trustworthy AI and criminal justice.

Kristina F. is the executive director of JFFLabs. In this role, she oversees advisory, acceleration, data, and investing initiatives that connect traditional systems with systems disruptors to enable equitable economic mobility. Kristina has more than 20 years of experience in corporate operations and entrepreneurial ventures focused on management consulting, business development, software and data integration, and impact investing competencies.

Ginny Fahs is the Director, Product R&D - Innovation Lab at Consumer Reports. Prior to joining Consumer Reports, Ginny was a software engineer at Uber and a Technology Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute. At Aspen, she focused on cybersecurity for the elderly and contributed research and design prototypes that are currently being adopted by U.S. government agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Homeland Security. She also co-founded #MovingForward, a nonprofit social enterprise that fights harassment and discrimination in startup investing. Ginny holds a Bachelor of Arts in History & Literature from Harvard University and a Master’s in Business Administration from INSEAD, a global business school with campuses in Europe and Asia.

Flynn Coleman is an author, an international human rights attorney, an environmental advocate, a Fellow at Harvard and Yale, and a professor. Flynn is the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen in the Law Faculty. She has been named a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.