Becca Ricks
Project Director, Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBecca Ricks is a researcher, technologist, and community builder with a decade of experience investigating the sociotechnical impacts of algorithmic systems and shaping trustworthy AI practices. She has led open-source research programs at Mozilla, managed large interdisciplinary researcher networks, and run randomized and qualitative studies on platform recommendation systems that informed regulators and international policy forums. Currently she designs multi-stakeholder workshops and convenes a 500+ peer-learning community at Data & Society while running an independent consultancy focused on AI transparency, safety, and governance. Trained in interactive telecommunications (NYU) and Middle East studies/Arabic, she mixes rigorous mixed-methods research with design-led, participatory approaches—often bringing feminist and critical design perspectives to tool and policy interventions. An under-the-radar strength is her track record of translating complex research into accessible tools, reports, and public-facing programs that influence both technologists and policymakers.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Interactive Telecommunications Program - Human-Computer Interaction, Master’s Degree Interactive Telecommunications Program - Human-Computer Interaction at New York University
Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (30)
corpus9
bots9
ads9
twine8
chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
facebook7
python7
browser-extension6
science5
sprint5
media5
image-processing5
javascript5
nonlinear5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
baricks/scene-detector
Mar 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
baricks/Facebook-ads-swap
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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