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About Suzanne Gleeson
In 2017, Suzanne Gleeson co-founded the nonprofit CodeBridge after witnessing how algorithmic bias in hiring tools systematically excluded Black and Latina women from tech internships, she led the team that reverse-engineered three commercial platforms to expose their training-data gaps and co-authored the first open-source audit toolkit adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor. Her approach blends deep technical rigor with narrative empathy: she insists engineers write user impact statements before deploying any AI system, modeling ethics not as compliance but as craft. Based in Detroit, she mentors high-school coders through her 'Hardware & Heart' summer labs, where students build Raspberry Pi, powered air quality sensors for neighborhood environmental justice campaigns, and has testified twice before Congress on inclusive innovation policy. Gleeson doesn’t frame diversity as a pipeline problem; she treats it as infrastructure design, arguing that equitable tech must be stress-tested in under-resourced schools, rural clinics, and union halls, not just Silicon Valley boardrooms.
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- “How did your audit of hiring algorithms change federal guidance on AI bias?”
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