Rashida Richardson

Rashida Richardson is a lawyer, researcher and Senior Counsel of Privacy and Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence at Mastercard. As an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, she is also a law and technology policy expert that researches the social and civil rights implications of artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies.

Richardson is the former Director of Policy Research at AI Now Institute at New York University. She joined AI Now after working as Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of New York (NYCLU), where she led the organization’s work on privacy, technology, surveillance, and education issues. Prior to the NYCLU, she was a staff attorney at the Center for HIV Law and Policy, where she worked on a wide-range of HIV-related legal and policy issues nationally, and she previously worked at Facebook Inc. and HIP Investor in San Francisco.

In 2020, Richardson appeared in the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma," which explored the rise of social media and the damage it has caused to society.

Richardson serves on the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University, the Advisory Board of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, the Board of Directors of the College & Community Fellowship, and she is an affiliate and Advisory Board member of the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies. She received her BA with honors in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and her JD from Northeastern University School of Law.