Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of the Symposium Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members

WELCOME/OPENING REMARKS

John L. Anderson was President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2025. He was born in Wilmington, DE, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in 1967 and a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971, both in chemical engineering. He served as president of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering from 2007 to 2015. Before that he was Provost and Executive Vice President at Case Western Reserve University (2004–2007), following 28 years at Carnegie Mellon University including 8 years as Dean of the College of Engineering and 11 years as Head of the Chemical Engineering Department. He began his professional career as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University (1971–1976). Anderson was elected to NAE in 1992 for contributions to the understanding of colloidal hydrodynamics and membrane transport phenomena. He was elected an NAE Councilor in 2015 and served on the Executive Compensation Committee and Temporary Nominating Committee on Member Diversity. He has also served on the Membership Policy Committee, Nominating Committee (chair), Chemical Engineering Section (chair, vice chair, section liaison, member), Chemical Engineering Peer Committee (chair), and Committee on Membership (immediate past chair, chair, vice chair, peer committee chair). His service also includes numerous National Academies activities, such as the Committee on Determining Basic Research Needs to Interrupt the Improvised Explosive Device Delivery Chain (chair); Committee on Review of Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques (chair); Organizing Committee for the National Security and Homeland Defense Workshop (co-chair); Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (co-chair); and Ford Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Review Panel on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering.

Charles F. Bolden, Jr. is the Founder & CEO Emeritus of The Charles F. Bolden Group LLC. After being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he served as the 12th Administrator of NASA from 2009 to 2017. As NASA Administrator, he oversaw the transition from the Space Shuttle program to a new era of space exploration focused on the International Space Station and technology development. During his 14 years as an astronaut, he logged more than 680 hours in space during four space shuttle missions, twice as commander and twice as pilot. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968, Bolden was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps then promoted to his final rank of major general in July 1998. He also served as Deputy Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan and

later as Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, from 2000 to 2002 before retiring from the Marine Corps in 2003. One of his professional research interests is using aeronautics and space exploration to inspire today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders who can foster collaboration between government, academia, and the private sector, as well as increased international cooperation in addressing the most pressing challenges facing humanity. Bolden earned a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in electrical science in 1968 and a M.S. in systems management from the University of Southern California in 1977. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and is currently co-Chair of its Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering (CESER) Advisory committee alongside serving as a member in numerous other engineering boards and committees.

BRIDGING HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENGINEERING

Theresa Harris is the Program Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice. She manages the Center’s projects on science and human rights, including On-call Scientists, a volunteer referral service that provides technical support for human rights organizations, activities that promote greater understanding of the human right to science, and projects on artificial intelligence and human rights. She also serves as coordinator of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, a network of scientific, engineering, and health associations that recognize the role of science and technology in human rights. Prior to joining AAAS, Harris represented survivors of human rights violations before U.S. courts, the Inter-American human rights system, and United Nations human rights mechanisms. She has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA and is a member of the governing body of the World Organization Against Torture. Harris holds degrees in anthropology, land use planning, and law and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Maya Carrasquillo is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Principal Investigator of the Liberatory Infrastructures Lab (LiL) at University of California (UC), Berkeley. The mission of LiL is to develop systems of critical infrastructure that support liberation and restorative justice for all. She is also the Faculty Director of the (CEE)² Community-Engaged Education program at UC Berkeley. Carrasquillo’s research focuses on sustainable and equitable urban water infrastructure, food-energy-water systems, community engagement and community science in decision-making, and environmental and infrastructural justice. She is a certified Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP) and a College of Engineering Huelskamp Faculty Fellow. Carrasquillo is a recipient of the prestigious Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40 award for the Class of 2022.

Tyler Giannini is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founding director of its Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic, which was launched in 2023. He has a strong interest in social entrepreneurship and community-centric approaches to human rights practice, especially as they relate to accountability litigation, business and human rights, and climate change and human rights. Before starting the Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic, Giannini was co-Director of both the Human Rights Program and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, where he has been since 2004. Before that, Giannini spent a decade in Thailand as a co-Founder and co-Director of EarthRights International, an organization at the

forefront of efforts to link human rights and environmental protection. At EarthRights, he was one of the architects of the landmark Doe v. Unocal case, a precedent-setting corporate accountability suit brought in U.S. court about human rights abuses surrounding the Yadana gas pipeline in Myanmar. Giannini has been involved in other seminal human rights litigation, including Mamani, et al. v. Sánchez de Lozada and the In re South African Apartheid Litigation. Giannini has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs, including to the U.S. Supreme Court in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Jesner v. Arab Bank, Nestlé USA v. Doe, Samantar v. Yousuf, and Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman.

Shareen Hertel is the Wiktor Osiatyński Chair of Human Rights & Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute. Her research focuses on changes in transnational human rights advocacy, with a focus on labor and economic rights issues. She is also active in collaborative research and teaching on engineering for human rights. Hertel has served as a consultant to foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America, and South Asia. She has conducted fieldwork in factory zones along the U.S.-Mexico border, in Bangladesh’s garment manufacturing export sector, among NGO networks in India, and in the multilateral trade arena. She is editor of The Journal of Human Rights and co-editor of the Routledge International Studies Intensives book series. Her published work includes Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities and Rights at Stake (Oxford University Press 2019) and Unexpected Power: Conflict & Change Among Transnational Activists (Cornell University Press, 2006) as well as multiple edited volumes, articles, and book chapters. She holds graduate degrees from Columbia University (PhD, 2003; MA, 2000, MIA, 1992) and a BA from The College of Wooster (1988).

HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Muhammad Zaman is an HHMI professor of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health at Boston University and the inaugural director of the Center on Forced Displacement, a university wide center that aims to bring together scholars, students, and practitioners from all parts of campus and around the world to improve well-being and the human condition of communities that are forcibly displaced due to conflict, persecution and climate change. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. In addition to five books and more than 175 peer-reviewed research articles, Zaman has written extensively on innovation and refugee and global health in newspapers around the world. His newspaper columns have appeared in more than 30 countries and have been translated into eight languages. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, the most recent being a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on antibiotic resistance in refugee camps.

Bernard Amadei is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley. Amadei is the Founding Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities (now Global Engineering). He is also the founding president of Engineers Without Borders USA and the Engineers Without Borders-International network co-founder. Among other distinctions, Amadei is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Construction. He is also an elected Senior Ashoka Fellow and was recently inducted into the 2023 ASEE Hall Of Fame. Amadei holds seven honorary doctoral

degrees. In 2013 and 2014, he served as a science envoy to Pakistan and Nepal for the U.S. Department of State. In 2023, Amadei completed his seventh book titled Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace-Sustainability-Climate Security Nexus. His new book, Engineering for Peace and Diplomacy, is scheduled for publication in 2025.

Mira Olson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University. She holds a BS in mechanical engineering and BA in environmental sciences and engineering from Rice University, and an ME and PhD in civil (environmental) engineering from the University of Virginia. The broad focus of her research is on protecting source water quality, with current interests in transboundary water management, climate adaptation, and community-based research design. Olson is a faculty liaison to The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel University and has served as faculty fellow in Drexel’s Office of University and Community Partnerships and in the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement. She has co-developed a curriculum and program in peace engineering at Drexel and is partnering to develop an MS degree in humanitarian engineering at INSA Lyon through a 2023 Fulbright Specialist Award to France. Olson is a former editor of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace, is a founding member of the Disaster Justice Network, and currently serves as an officer on the Board of Directors of the Community and College Partners Program.

SPECIAL LECTURE

Shirley Ann Jackson, a theoretical physicist, has had a distinguished career that includes senior leadership positions in academia, government, industry, and research. She holds an SB in physics and a PhD in theoretical elementary particle physics—both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the first African American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT—in any field—and has been a trailblazer throughout her career, including as the first African American woman to lead a top-ranked research university.

ENGINEERING TO PROMOTE CLIMATE JUSTICE

Darshan Karwat is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where he runs an interdisciplinary lab called re-Engineered. His areas of work and teaching include collaborations and tools mobilizing engineers, scientists, and community groups to address environmental, climate, and energy challenges; embedding principles of justice into energy technology design; the future of environmental governance; space system design; and activist engineering. Karwat earned a BSE in aerospace engineering and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Sustainability Ethics from the University of Michigan.

Carlton Waterhouse is an international expert on environmental law and environmental justice, as well as reparations and redress for historic injustices. In 2021, he was appointed by President Joseph Biden in the role of Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nominated to the U.S. Senate to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the Office. During his 2 years serving in the Biden-Harris Administration, he oversaw the nation’s programs for toxic waste site remediation, community revitalization and redevelopment through contaminated site cleanup,

hazardous and solid waste materials management, chemical plant safety, and emergency response to toxic spills, fires, and explosions. He lectures globally on climate justice, reparations and reconciliation, and group-based inequality. In 2019, he testified on reparations before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and in 2018 he completed a Fulbright research fellowship in Brazil examining race and police violence. His views have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. His scholarship includes essays, articles, and book chapters focused on the ethical and legal dimensions of environmental justice and reparations. His forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press explores the historic and contemporary role of the U.S. Supreme Court in maintaining and dismantling racial dominance. Waterhouse is a member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Climate Crossroads Advisory Committee, a board member of the Environmental Law Institute, and a former board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He actively participates in national and local organizations protecting civil rights and advancing environmental protection and justice. Waterhouse is a Professor of Law and the founding director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Center at the Howard University School of Law. The center conducts environmental justice research and advocacy that supports local communities confronting environmental injustices and provides policy interventions that promote environmental justice in local, national, and global arenas.

ADDRESSING INEQUITIES IN PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Davis Chacón-Hurtado is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. He co-directs the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, which aims to promote and advance interdisciplinary research in engineering with a focus on societal outcomes and to develop a curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engineering. Before his current role, Chacón-Hurtado worked as a civil engineer in the design and construction of infrastructure aimed at advancing social and economic development in rural areas of the Andean region of Peru. His research interests include transportation equity, environmental justice, human rights, engineering education, and economic resilience. Chacón-Hurtado grew up in Cusco, Peru, where he obtained his BS in civil engineering at the University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco. He completed his PhD in transportation and infrastructure systems at Purdue University and earned an MSCE degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, where he worked on incorporating community preferences into infrastructure designs as part of a project focused on appropriate technology.

Eric Buckley joined BHI in 2020 as a structural engineer and project manager. Previously, he worked for more than 13 years with international consulting engineering firms to design new buildings and renovate existing structures across the United States and internationally. In his current role as Director of Oxygen Engineering, Buckley leads the BHI team focused on improving access to lifesaving medical oxygen through infrastructure improvements, oxygen plant repair and maintenance, design of new oxygen plants, and hands-on training in low-resource areas throughout the world. He also oversees collaborative efforts among global partners and organizations, funders, ministries of health, and other stakeholders who share a common goal of strengthening health systems through improved oxygen delivery and access. He

holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering from Villanova University, as well as an MBA from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Buckley is driven by the built environment’s ability to be a transformative force in people’s lives and is focused on using his professional experience to improve access to health care around the world.

Bethany Gordon Hoy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, where she leads the PLACE(E) Lab, Place-based Liberatory Advances for Climate Equity in Engineering. She is an interdisciplinary researcher—applying methods from the social sciences to help engineers and frontline designers better collaborate for just climate adaptation. Her work is process-focused and developed for application in water, transportation, and energy infrastructure. She earned her PhD and her BS in civil engineering from the University of Virginia, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow.

Kimberly L. Jones has more than 30 years of experience in civil and environmental engineering. She is Associate Provost (Office of the Provost and Chief Academic Officer) and Professor (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) at Howard University. She also serves as chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. She is chair of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education and serves on the Engineering Advisory Committee. Jones’ areas of expertise are environmental equity and justice, water quality and reuse, resource recovery, environmental management, engaged research, and environmental nanotechnology. She is a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Science Professors and a Board Certified Environmental Engineer Member of American Association of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Jones holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Howard University, an MS in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Illinois, and a PhD in environmental engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. She has served on numerous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees.

DAY ONE OBSERVATIONS AND WRAP UP

Glen T. Daigger is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan and President and Founder of One Water Solutions, LLC, a water engineering, and innovation firm. He has previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for CH2M HILL (now Jacobs) for 35 years, and as Professor and Chair of Environmental Systems Engineering at Clemson University. Actively engaged in the water profession through major projects, and as author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers, five books, and several technical manuals, he has advised many of the major cites of the world. He is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Distinguished Fellow of the International Water Association, and a fellow of the Water Environment Federation. Daigger received his BScE degree, his MSCE degree, and his PhD degree, all in environmental engineering, from Purdue University. A member of several professional societies, Daigger was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2003 and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019. He has participated in numerous NAE advisory groups, roundtables, and committees related to urban sustainability and water and environmental research systems.

DAY TWO WELCOME AND DAY ONE RECAP

Alton D. Romig, Jr. is Executive Officer of the National Academy of Engineering, which is congressionally chartered to provide, when requested, advice to the federal government on matters of engineering and technology. As Chief Operating Officer Dr. Romig is responsible for the Academy’s program, financial, and membership operations, reporting to the President. Before assuming his current position, he was Vice President and General Manager of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company’s Advanced Development Programs, better known as the Skunk Works®, the preeminent seat of U.S. aerospace innovation for more than 70 years. He led research and advanced development activities and set the strategic direction for current and future programs for the company’s Aeronautics Business Area. Romig spent more than 30 years with Sandia National Laboratories (operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company) before joining Advanced Development Programs. His senior leadership responsibilities included development and engineering activities providing science, technology, and systems expertise in support of U.S. programs in military technology, nuclear deterrence and proliferation prevention, technology assessments, intelligence and counterintelligence, homeland security, and energy programs. As a member of the technical staff he is one of the few engineers to have worked on every nuclear weapons system currently in the U.S. stockpile.

Deb Niemeier is the Clark Distinguished Chair in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Maryland, College Park; she serves as a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. Her research focuses on the identification of vulnerable populations and environmental/health disparities in the built environment. She studies risks associated with outcomes in the intersection of social and demographic characteristics, housing and infrastructure with environmental hazards such as air quality, disasters, and more broadly climate change. She is currently serving as co-Chair of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Global Climate Research Program. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “distinguished contributions to energy and environmental science study and policy development,” a Guggenheim Fellow for foundational work on pro bono service in engineering, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2020. She recently received the Perry L. McCarty Founders Award (2022) and 2023 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.

PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION IN ENGINEERING DECISION-MAKING

Amy Smith is the Founding Director of MIT D-Lab, an innovative university-based program in international development and a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is also the Founder of the International Development Design Summit, co-Founder of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, co-Founder of Rethink Relief conference, and originator of the Creative Capacity Building Methodology. Following her graduation from MIT in 1984 with a BS in mechanical engineering, she served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Botswana. She went on to receive an MS in mechanical engineering and an engineer’s degree, both from MIT. In 2002, she founded MIT D-Lab, a center that works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges. For more than 20 years, D-Lab has developed more than 20 MIT courses, has hosted research groups, and through the International Development Design

Summits, has established a diverse international network of more than 2,000 innovators from four continents as well as local innovation centers in countries in Africa, Central America, South America, India, and Southeast Asia. Smith was selected as a 2004 MacArthur Fellow and was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2010 for her work promoting local innovation and technology creation. She has done fieldwork in Senegal, South Africa, Nepal, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, and Indonesia. Her current projects are in the areas of water testing, treatment and storage, agricultural processing and alternative energy, and humanitarian innovation.

John B. Kleba is a Full Professor of Social Sciences at the Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA) in Brazil. In 1992, he moved to Germany, earning a PhD in science and technology studies from the University of Bielefeld. He also worked as a researcher in law and society in Bremen. In 2005, he moved with his family to Brazil to work at ITA, leading the Laboratory of Citizenship and Social Technologies (LabCTS). LabCTS has engaged hundreds of engineering students in projects in partnership with civil society organizations and public schools. Kleba has investigated genetic resource access and benefit-sharing regimes, working closely with Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities. In 2017, he introduced the concept of engaged engineering, inaugurating a research program with scholars expanding the field in various Latin American countries. This program has been chosen to represent one of the new Latin American perspectives on “Diversifying Theory in Science and Technology Studies” in an upcoming book. Some of his recent publications include co-editing the trilingual book trilogy Engineering and Other Engaged Technical Practices and co-authoring the papers “Fostering peace engineering and rethinking development: A Latin American view” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change) and “From empowerment to emancipation—A framework for empowering sociotechnical interventions” (International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace).

Michael Ashley Stein is the co-Founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School since 2005. Considered one of the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the drafting of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, works with disabled peoples’ organizations and nongovernmental organizations around the world, actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies, advises an array of UN bodies and national human rights institutions, and has brought landmark disability rights litigation globally. Stein has received numerous awards in recognition of his transformative work, including the National Order of Merit (Ecuador), USICD Dole/Harkin Award, Morton E. Ruderman Prize, Henry Viscardi Achievement Award, ABA Paul G. Hearne Award, and Harvard University Excellence in Accessibility and Inclusion Faculty Award. His authoritative and path-breaking scholarship of 278 academic publications and 11 books have been published worldwide by leading journals and academic presses and supported by fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research, among others. Stein teaches at Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Medical School; holds an Extraordinary Professorship at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights; and is a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam’s Athena Institute. He earned a JD from Harvard Law School (becoming the first known person with a disability to be a member of the Harvard Law Review) and a PhD from Cambridge University (full tuition and stipend via

a W.M. Tapp Studentship). Stein was appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

SEEKING JUSTICE AND REMEDIATING HUMAN RIGHTS HARMS

Betsy Popken is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (HRC) at UC Berkeley School of Law. She leads a team conducting a human rights impact assessment and model evaluation of large language models, directs HRC’s Climate Justice program, and spearheads HRC’s work on international peace negotiations. She teaches courses at Berkeley Law on Technology & Human Rights and International Peace Negotiations. Popken is regularly interviewed by technology companies conducting due diligence to assess the human rights risks of their products and services. She has written and speaks extensively on the intersection of artificial intelligence and human rights. Popken co-founded and co-led the Business & Human Rights practice at the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where she helped clients tackle human rights issues raised by emerging technologies. She worked on United Nations–mediated peace and ceasefire negotiations in Darfur, Syria, and Yemen through the Public International Law & Policy Group, where she led work supporting the Syrian opposition negotiation team in peace negotiations in Geneva. Popken previously served on the World Economic Forum’s Responsible Use of Technology Steering Committee and taught at Stanford Law School. She received her JD from the University of Southern California, her LLM from the London School of Economics (LSE), and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jay D. Aronson is the Founder and Director of the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is also Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the History Department. Prof. Aronson’s research and teaching examine the interactions of science, technology, law, media, and human rights in a variety of contexts. For the past several years, he has been focusing on deaths in law enforcement custody in the United States. His recent book Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), co-authored with Dr. Roger A. Mitchell, examines the history of efforts to counteract official government ignorance on this issue and proposes a variety of practical solutions to the lack of data about how many people die in custody each year. Aronson maintains an active interest in the use of digital evidence (especially video) in human rights investigations as well as the ethical, political, and social dimensions of post-conflict and post-disaster identification of the missing and disappeared. He has also been involved in a variety of projects that seek to improve the quality of civilian casualty recording and estimation in times of conflict.

Julie Owono is the Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontieres and the Founder of the Content Policy & Society Lab, a company first incubated at Stanford University, that helps tech be better for society. Owono is one of the inaugural members of the Meta Oversight Board that oversees content moderation decisions on Facebook and Instagram. She is also a researcher affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard university. Inspired by her professional path, spanning from civil society to academia, all the way through private sector, Owono has an acute understanding of what it takes to innovate in tech, while safeguarding the foundational principles of democratic societies. At the intersection of business and human rights, Owono is passionate about creating spaces for collaborations between tech companies, civil society

organizations, academic institutions, governments, and finding creative solutions to major governance and policy challenges posed by tech. As a researcher affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center, she will continue to explore the benefits of a multistakeholder approach in technology policy and governance. Owono advised the U.S. Department of State on Democracy and Content Moderation. She frequently moderates important tech policy debates: she recently served as a moderator of Socrates dialogues on the Metaverse, and another one on the Oversight of AI. Both were convened and organized by the Aspen Institute. She serves on the Board of WITNESS, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Dangerous Speech project, and Meedan. She is also a member of the Global Partnership on AI created by France and Canada, of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on AI for Humanity, of the WEF Council on the Connected World. She was one of UNESCO’s Ad Hoc Expert Group who drafted the first-ever global standard on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. She was named Business Personality of the year 2022 by the French-American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. Owono has debated current issues on various media, including NPR, CNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC, and France 24. She graduated with a degree in international law from La Sorbonne University in Paris and practiced as a lawyer at the Paris Bar.

José L. Torero is Professor Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. He works in the field of fire safety where he specializes in complex environments such as urban environments, novel architectures, new construction materials, critical infrastructure, and aircraft and spacecraft. Torero is a Chartered Engineer (UK), a Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), The Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK), The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (USA), the Institution of Fire Engineers (UK), and the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK).

INTEGRATING HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES INTO SYSTEMS AND PRODUCT DESIGN

Lindsey Andersen is an Associate Director at BSR, where she works at the intersection of technology and human rights, helping both tech and non-tech companies identify and address human rights impacts associated with the development and use of technology and effectively incorporate business and human rights practices. Her focus areas include content governance, end-use risks of tech products and services, and the implications of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Prior to joining BSR, Andersen worked with digital rights organization Access Now to drive the conversation on the human rights implications of artificial intelligence. As part of this, she wrote the foundational report Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Andersen previously worked at Internews, implementing a large portfolio of digital rights projects across Latin America, which focused on equipping journalists and human rights defenders with digital security skills and digital rights expertise.

Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering Emeritus at the University of California (UC), Berkeley and is affiliated faculty at in the Energy Resources Group and Women & Gender Studies. She served as the Founding Chair of the Graduate Group in Development Engineering, Education Director at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, Chair of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate, and Associate Dean of Engineering. She has supervised 197 MS projects/theses, 66 doctoral dissertations, and numerous

undergraduate researchers. Agogino has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and has won numerous teaching, mentoring, best paper and research awards. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on a number of committees of the National Academies. She received a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from UC Berkeley, and a BS from University of New Mexico. Agogino is also CEO of Squishy Robotics Inc., a spin-off of her work on space exploration robots with NASA.

Tamara E. Brown loves seeing things grow—whether a medical device, chemical plant build, future careers for children in STEM, or sustainable organizations poised for the clean energy future. Brown retired in 2024 as Vice President Sustainability of Linde after 22 years. In this capacity, she was responsible for Linde’s sustainability strategy, performance reporting, programing, goals, and engagement for the industrial gases leader, with operations in 80 countries and 65,000 colleagues worldwide. Prior to joining Linde (Praxair), Brown spent nearly a decade in traditional medical device development. Named a White House Champion of Change in 2011 and one of Fortune Magazine’s Heroes of the 500, Brown has been recognized for creating opportunities for others to realize their potential, including through the Tech Savvy program. Brown earned her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt, double-majoring in biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University at Buffalo, and an MBA from Canisius College. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and sits on the boards of Naugatuck Valley Community College Foundation, Red Hen Press, and Common Denominator. She also serves on advisory boards for Vanderbilt University’s biomedical engineering program and business school and for Boston University’s Graduate Women in Engineering and Science.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. She has studied both systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her research on digital media. She has authored many books, including Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011), Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016), and Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition (2021, MIT Press). She currently leads the Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Project, which combines the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine, and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world. She is also Chair of the Scientific Panel on Global Standards for AI Auditing for the International Panel on the Information Environment. She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades and is currently a Visiting Professor. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and International Fellow of the British Academy, and she has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

Katie Shay is a leader in the field of business and human rights, currently serving as the Associate General Counsel and Director of Human Rights at Cisco Systems, Inc. Shay leads Cisco’s efforts to integrate human rights principles into business practices across Cisco’s global value chain. As a co-founder of Cisco’s Responsible AI program, Shay spearheaded the development of a comprehensive framework and governance principles to manage the

responsible development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence systems. Prior to joining Cisco, Shay served as Business and Human Rights Counsel at Yahoo, where she managed human rights programs related to privacy and freedom of expression on a global scale. Shay earned a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA in English literature from Marquette University.

SYMPOSIUM SUMMARY OBSERVATIONS AND CLOSING REMARKS

Wesley L. Harris is Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was previously associate provost (2008–2013) and Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2003–2008). Harris is former Head of Aero Astro, became the very first Director of MIT’s Office of Minority Education, and most recently served as the Associate Provost for Faculty Equity. In addition to numerous teaching and administrative duties since, he has been a champion of diversity efforts at the Institute. His contributions include creating methods for measuring and improving student achievement and initiating programs that meet the needs of black students. Before joining MIT, he was a NASA Associate Administrator (1993–1995), Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the University of Tennessee Space Institute (1990–1993), and Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (1985–1990). Harris has done academic research associated with unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, rarefied gas dynamics, sustainment of capital assets, and chaos in sickle cell disease, and made seminal contributions in each field. He earned a BS (with honors) in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia in 1964, and master’s and PhD degrees in aerospace and mechanical sciences from Princeton University in 1966 and 1968, respectively. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1995 and currently serves as Vice President of NAE and a member of the Committee on Human Rights of the NAS, NAE, and NAM. He has also served on numerous National Research Council committees and councils since 1989 such as the National Associates Program, Executive Committee of the NAE Council, Governing Board of the National Research Council, and the NAE Awards Committee.

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