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Ngozi Okidegbe is the Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University, holding dual appointments in the School of Law and the Department of Computing & Data Sciences. She is a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, technology, and racial justice, particularly examining how predictive algorithms in criminal justice systems perpetuate systemic inequities against marginalized communities.
Okidegbe earned her Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from McGill University, followed by an LLM from Columbia Law School where she graduated as a James Kent Scholar. Prior to academia, she served as a law clerk at South Africa's Constitutional Court and Ontario's Court of Appeal, and practiced labor law at Toronto's CaleyWray. She has published extensively in top-tier law reviews including the UCLA Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Cornell Law Review.
Her work challenges algorithmic bias through frameworks informed by Black feminist theory and Afrofuturism, advocating for equitable tech governance. Recent engagements include speaking at GW Law’s AI & Surveillance Symposium and Colorado Law’s Feminist Cyberlaw Symposium. Okidegbe teaches Evidence Law (LAW JD 831) and actively participates in policy dialogues on convergent research, digital privacy, and labor dispute resolution through AI.
- Awards: James Kent Scholar (Columbia Law School)
- Media Features: The Mail & Guardian, Futurity, The Brink, Boston University News
- Grants/Advisory Roles: Electronic Privacy Information Center advisory board, Privacy Law Scholars’ Conference program committee
