Board & Advisory

Benjamin Kinsella (he/him) is an operator and educator working at the intersection of human-centered AI, education, and data. He was previously a member of OpenAI’s Human Data team where he supported model training, evaluation, and AI safety preparedness. Earlier, Benjamin led operations and product at early-stage companies, and advised nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations on topics including data governance, AI transformation, and responsible AI deployment. Benjamin holds a PhD from Rutgers University and is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University.

Admas Kanyagia (she/her) is a senior leader with over two decades of experience advancing inclusion and social impact across sectors. She leads Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at GitHub, where she’s shaping inclusive culture and inclusive innovation. Her career spans leadership roles in corporate social impact at DigitalOcean and GitHub, strategy consulting at FSG and Accenture, and program innovation in affordable housing. Admas holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and is based in Oakland, CA.

Amy Sample Ward (they/them) believes that technology should be accessible and accountable to everyone, especially communities historically and systemically excluded from the digital world. They are the CEO of NTEN, a nonprofit creating a world where missions and movements are more successful through the skillful and equitable use of technology. Amy’s second book, “Social Change Anytime Everywhere,” was a Terry McAdam Book Award finalist. Their latest book, “The Tech That Comes Next,” co-authored with Afua Bruce, addresses the opportunities for change makers, technologists, philanthropists, and policymakers to build an equitable world with technology.

Amy is the Vice President of Strategy, Evaluation and Impact at Tides, where she is responsible for developing strategy, operational plans, and leading the measurement & evaluation of the organization’s operations and partner services to drive continuous improvement for Tides’ partners, grantees, and the communities they serve. Prior to Tides, Amy worked at UNICEF USA for nine years, where she established and managed systems and services to support resource mobilization and knowledge management, oversaw strategic planning and monitoring for domestic programs, and managed the U.S. community engagement program. Amy previously worked at the UN World Food Programme in New York, as a refugee resettlement specialist in Austin, Texas, and worked for several years in the private sector translation localization industry. Amy earned a B.A. in French and a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas and earned her M.A. in International Affairs from the New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs. When she is not thinking about ways to disrupt the philanthropic system for justice and equity, she spends her time riding her bike with her family, eating breakfast tacos, and enjoying time outdoors in the Rocky Mountains.

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury (she/her) is a globally recognized leader in data science and responsible AI, uniquely positioned at the intersection of industry, civil society, and government. She is a sought-after speaker at high-profile venues, including TED, the World Economic Forum, the UN AI for Good Summit, and the European Parliament, where she brings a rare combination of technical expertise and real-world implementation experience. She is the former US Science Envoy for AI at the US Department of State; the former Engineer Director of Machine Learning, Ethics and Transparency at Twitter; the founder and CEO of Parity AI (acquired by Twitter); and the former Managing Director of Responsible AI at Accenture. Rumman co-founded Humane Intelligence in 2022 and served as its CEO until August 2025. She stepped down to launch her new startup, details about which are coming soon. Rumman holds dual Bachelor degrees from MIT, a Master degree from Columbia University, and completed her PhD in Political Science at UC San Diego. She remains a Distinguished Advisor of Humane Intelligence, the nonprofit.

Georgia (she/her) joined Superbloom in 2018, returning to her first passions — usability and human centered design. She has been working to change who technology serves as an advocate in the internet health movement focusing on issues such as security, privacy, and equitable access to technology. Her work has focused on the intersection of human-centered design, communities, physical space, and technology – e.g. how technology intersects with human rights — access to information and the right to communicate. Georgia brings over 20 years of experience at the intersection of usability and design, technology, data, policy, and nonprofit leadership. In addition to her work at Superbloom, Georgia is the chair of the Advisory Committee for Measurement Lab and serves as an advisor to TechCongress.

Gina Assaf (she/her) – is a Senior UX Research Leader and Digital Design Consultant, and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Olive Branch International Digital Solutions (OBI Digital). With 25+ years of experience in human-centered design and research across healthcare, technology, and global development sectors, she brings expertise in participatory research methodologies, patient-centered design, and ethical technology development. Through Olive Branch International Digital Solutions, she leads strategic research and design initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and international organizations including the World Bank, GIZ, and the UN. Gina is also Co-Founder and Co-Lead of the Patient-led Research Collaborative. She has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on Long COVID research and conducted medical education for healthcare providers. Gina holds a Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and Bachelors in Computer Science from San Diego State University.

Jed (he/him) has spent his career working at the intersection of data, product development, cloud computing, economics, and policy. He has helped create data sharing best practices that have been adopted worldwide by NASA, USGS, Google, Microsoft and other institutions around the world. He has taught at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs and is a technical fellow at the Taylor Geospatial Engine and technical advisor to Flickr Foundation. He has previously served as technical advisor to the Landsat Advisory Group and on the board of directors of NatureServe. Before joining Radiant Earth, he created the Amazon Web Services Open Data Program. A proud student of the humanities, he uses his “spare time” to produce Techs on Texts, a podcast about the intersection of literature and technology. He is fluent in Spanish, pretty good at Portuguese, and can passably order food in German.

Afua Bruce (she/her) is a leading voice at the intersection of technology, data, and social impact. She is the Principal of ANB Advisory Group, where she helps organizations across sectors strengthen their technical and data strategies. Prior to founding ANB Advisory Group, Afua held senior science and technology roles at the White House, the FBI, and IBM. Afua is a sought-after speaker and author, known for her insights on ethical technology, responsible AI, and innovation for social enterprises. Her newest book, The Tech That Comes Next, explores how communities and technologists can collaborate to build a more equitable future. Afua was honored with a statue in the If/Then Exhibit highlighting women in STEM, which was displayed in the Smithsonian. She is an affiliate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Berkman Klein Center, sits on the board of Code the Dream, and is a member of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Advisory Council.

Dr. Michael Zargham is the founder and Chief Engineer at BlockScience, a systems engineering firm focused on digital public infrastructure. He is also Board Member and Research Director at US Based Non-Profit Metagov – a community of practice focused on digitally mediated self-governance. He is also an active volunteer and advisory council member at NumFocus – A US Based Non-Profit which promotes open practices in research, data, and scientific computing by serving as a fiscal sponsor for open source projects. Dr. Zargham received his PhD from the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014.

Kaitlin is the Executive Director at Invest in Open Infrastructure, where she works to drive more investment and resourcing to open technology providers, and help them think more strategically about organizational health, governance, adoption, and business models. She is an open advocate, and has spent much of her career advising, advocating and designing for open access to content, data, research and code, and working to build sustainable pathways to support open approaches over the long-term at Creative Commons, Mozilla, and Wikimedia. She joined the Humane Intelligence advisory group in January 2026.

Diego Garcia-Olano (he/him) is a Senior Research Scientist at Meta, where he has worked across Responsible AI, Meta Superintelligence Labs Trust, and ML Innovation for Products, focusing on safety alignment and interpretability of large language models and user journey optimization. His research spans evaluation and mitigation of risks including hallucination, memorization, PII, and IP exposure in pre- and post-trained LLMs, with publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, ACL, and other leading venues. He was a contributor to Meta’s Llama 3 and Llama 4 model releases and co-organizes the Unlearning and Model Editing (U&ME) workshop. Diego holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin, where his dissertation focused on interpretability and multimodal entity representation learning with applications in biomedicine and social good. Prior to Meta, he was awarded a Fulbright Specialist fellowship to build models to predict gender bias in judicial proceedings for a human rights center in Argentina, completed research internships at Google Research and IBM, and was a Data Science for Social Good fellow at the University of Chicago working with SEDESOL to enhance the distribution of social services to alleviate poverty in Mexico.

Lauren Damme (she/her) is an internationally recognized expert in program evaluation and human rights measurement with over 20 years of experience leading research across 30+ countries. She helps lead the Chief Evaluation Office at the U.S. Department of Labor and is a Senior Fellow at the Data Foundation, where she conducts research at the intersection of AI and evidence-building. Lauren also serves as Adjunct Professor of Evaluation & AI at George Washington University, and leads studies on labor exploitation measurement and evaluation as Visiting Fellow at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy & Evaluation from George Washington University, and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. In addition to her research on AI & Evaluation, her forthcoming book on human trafficking and labor supply chains will be published by Springer International in 2027.