Mentorship Program, NYC and SF Responsible Tech Mixers, & our Responsible Tech Guide!

Plus find us at Unfinished Live in NYC this week for our three-day activation where we are interviewing 15 Responsible Tech leaders + providing resources for more backgrounds to enter the movement.

👋Our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program is now open! Apply by Sept 30th to be either a mentee or a mentor

Are you looking to receive guidance as you grow your career in Responsible Tech?! Or are you an experienced individuals looking to pay your knowledge forward? Apply to our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program, which is open from now until September 30th to receive applications. We had over 400 people on our waiting list, so there is a significant amount of interest for individuals wanting to learn more about the fields of Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Public Interest Technology, Tech & Democracy, and Digital Wellbeing. This program, where mentees are paired in small groupings with a mentor of similar interest, will run from November to April 2023.

And if you are looking to learn more about our mentorship program, attend our livestream on Responsible Tech: Finding Mentorship Opportunities happening on Wed, September 28th at 1pm ET. During this livestream, we will hear from All Tech Is Human’s Program Director Rebekah Tweed, and previous mentors Sneha Deo (Responsible AI Lead at Microsoft), Kevin Fumai (Assistant General Counsel at Oracle), and Amelia Kallman (leading London futurist, speaker, & author). Our last mentorship cohort featured 180 participants (135 mentees, 45 mentors). Read about our previous mentors here.

And if you are looking to be matched up with potential opportunities in Responsible Tech, join our new Responsible Tech Talent Pool!

🤯Our activation at Unfinished Live in NYC this week will feature 15 incredible Responsible Tech leaders!

Yeah, we told you we had a few [ethical] tricks up our sleeve. Our organization is thrilled to welcome 15 inspiring leaders to our activation (“All Tech Is Human Library”) at this year’s Unfinished Live in NYC. Check out the schedule here. You’ll hear from Theranos whistleblower Erika Cheung, noted media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, Meredith Broussard (author of Artificial Unintelligence ), Vilas Dhar (president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation), Reid Blackman (author of Ethical Machines), and many more. All of these conversations are being taped for podcast and will be shared with everyone in coming newsletters.

Are YOU going to be at Unfinished Live? Please find us at our activation (at McCourt) from 1-4pm on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and let us know here if you will be there so we look out for you.

🗽We are keeping up the momentum after Unfinished Live with a Responsible Tech Mixer NYC! Join us.

Join our Responsible Tech Mixer in NYC on Thurs, October 13th from 5:30 to 7:30.

Here at All Tech Is Human, we like to bring people together. Our non-profit specializes in uniting a diverse range of stakeholders across civil society, government, industry, and academia so we can better tackle thorny tech & society issues. Everything you read in this newsletter is centered around our holistic approach building a better tech future through our three key workstreams: multi-stakeholder convening & community building (see Mixers, Summits), multidisciplinary education (see Responsible Tech Guide, reports), and diversifying the traditional tech pipeline (see Mentorship Program, Job Board, Responsible Tech Talent Pool). (Read about our mission here.)

Why do we do this? Because right now we are not adequately prepared to approach wicked problems. Too many voices that should be involved are left on the sidelines and there is a ridiculous problem of siloed work. We are not building knowledge upon knowledge, and we are not working together. That’s why we exist, to change this for the better.

So if you are in the NYC area, please join our upcoming Responsible Tech Mixer where we will kick off the evening with a fireside chat with Marta L. Tellado, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports and the author of author of Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace.

🌉Hey, San Francisco. We are coming your way for a Responsible Tech Mixer on Thurs, October 27th.

If you are the SF Bay Area, we’d love to have you join us for our Responsible Tech Mixer + panel (Responsible AI) happening on Thurs, October 27th from 4 to 6:30pm. We are also putting together a panel around Responsible AI with a soon-to-be-announced list of speakers! Sign-up here.

Do you know of people and/or organizations in the SF Bay Area we should involve? Ping us at Hello / AllTechIsHuman.org.

Join us!

🙏Thank you to everyone who showed up at our Responsible Tech Guide release party last week!

We received an overwhelming amount of support with the release last week of our flagship resource, the Responsible Tech Guide! Since its first release in Sept 2020, the Responsible Tech Guide has helped make the nascent movement more cohesive, inform a diverse range of backgrounds about ways to get plugged in, and been a springboard for new organizations who have utilized the guide’s ecosystem mapping of people, organizations, and ideas.

🥳Thank you to everyone who came to our Building a Better Tech Future for Children gathering with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

Gatherings are more fun with Sesame Street characters in the building, and we had a terrific time last Wednesday at our Building a Better Tech Future for Children. We will be sharing videos from the panel and keynote conversations in our next newsletter, along with some emerging themes we witnessed at this impactful convening of researchers, youth advocates, Trust & Safety professionals, org leaders, academics, and more.

🙏Thank you to everyone who showed up today for our Tech & Democracy Online Mixer! Be on the lookout for future online mixers and our next open working group…

💭Have you joined our community Slack yet? 3.6k members from across the globe from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives are coming together to share resources, build community, and collaborate. We’ve started new channels for the Toronto community, UK community, and larger European community recently plus hubs for NYC, SF, DC, Boston, and LA.

😎Cool happens in Responsible Tech

“Hi ATIH community! I'm Reema Moussa, and I'm currently a Fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, a fantastic organization for early-career tech law and policy professionals to connect! Our third annual Policy Hackathon is currently accepting applications - this a great opportunity to explore big issues in the metaverse space and network with your peers. Applications are due September 30rd by 11:59 pm ET and can be submitted here!” -Reema Moussa

“The Tech Worker Handbook informs tech employees, and potential tech employees, about considerations they should take if speaking out against wrongdoing. Because All Tech is Human advocates strongly for ethical development of tech, it’s crucial we all understand what is involved in speaking out so we have the power to do so if we encounter ethical issues. The Signals Network, a whistleblowing support non-profit organization, wrote the legal section of the handbook, which is downloadable here. It includes information on how to work with lawyers, what to know about NDAs, working with Congress, and much more. Reach out to info@thesignalsnetwork.org with any questions.” -Ben Grazda

“TrustCon is dedicated to trust and safety professionals, bringing them together to share, learn, and collaborate. It is the only global conference of its kind, developed by trust and safety professionals for their peers. To ensure that the global trust and safety community can be a part of TrustCon 2022, events will take place online as well as in person. The 2022 TrustCon in-person event will run September 27-28, 2022, in Palo Alto, CA, USA, and the virtual component will run September 28-29, 2022, with three tracks running to accommodate working hours around the world. The in-person program is sold out, but you can still sign up to attend virtually.” -Amanda Menking

“Virtual Sessions Open to Public at PITUN Convening. The Public Interest Technology University Network at New America is excited to have Ingrid LaFleur and Julian Brave NoiseCat as keynote speakers at its 2022 convening on Oct. 28 - 29. General public virtual attendees are invited to join the conversation on the intersection of technology, policy, arts and social justice.” -Katherine Shek

👊This newsletter is for people who want to tackle thorny tech & society issues.

-All Tech Is Human | Write us at Hello / AllTechIsHuman.org

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