Kenrya Rankin

Aug 21, 2024 | shorturl.at | Kenrya Rankin

Nothing happens in a vacuum. That’s the truth at the heart of intersectionality. We can’t have a conversation about Racial Justice without talking about the extractivism that butts up against Economic and Environmental Justice. And no treatise on Human Rights is complete without exploring how the AI supply chain creates climate refugees. It’s no different when we look at the ways AI influences Economic Justice around the world.

Aug 6, 2024 | shorturl.at | Kenrya Rankin

Being a research editor at Mozilla whose work focuses on the intersection of AI and social justice means my days are consumed with finding the right words to make complex concepts easier to understand. I find so much joy in figuring out the right turn of phrase, and even more in learning new ones myself. So when Ilia Savelev, whom you’ll meet below, mentioned the term “digital empathy,” I was thrilled to have something new to add to my vocabulary.

Jul 23, 2024 | shorturl.at | Kenrya Rankin

I never thought I’d end up working in tech. Sure, I was raised by a computer tech and spent many nights in freezing rooms, watching him fix clients’ malfunctioning mainframes. And, sure, I was a STEM student before that acronym was a thing, spending my high school summer “breaks” on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio (United States), diving into all things nerdy. But I ultimately decided to be a creative, working as a journalist for many years.

Jul 9, 2024 | shorturl.at | Kenrya Rankin

The truth is, I was disabled long before I realized it. I’ve been taking life saving medication since before I could put on my own shoes, and I spent so much time in the emergency department of my local hospital as a kid — alternately struggling to breathe and cradling a sprained joint — that I might as well have taped my posters of R&B singers to the walls.

Jun 26, 2024 | shorturl.at | Kenrya Rankin

There is so much that has the potential to divide us. Politics. Ethnicity. Ideas. But a close look reveals an important truth: the things that divide us most are the artificial borders we erect, be they ideology, -isms and -obias, or those drawn on a map. Both as a concept and a built reality, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to further separate us. But it won’t if we reform the ways it’s created and deployed around the world now.