Charlton Mcilwain

Author of the book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter, Dr. Charlton McIlwain is Vice Provost at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication. He works at the intersections of computing technology, race, inequality, and racial justice activism. He has served as an expert witness in landmark U.S. Federal Court cases on reverse redlining/racial targeting in mortgage lending, and recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on the financial services sector. He is the author of a recent report for PolicyLink titled, "Algorithmic Discrimination: a Framework and Approach to Auditing & Measuring the Impact of Race-Targeted Digital Advertising." McIlwain is the founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies, heads NYU’s Alliance for Public Interest Technology, is NYU’s Designee to the Public Interest Technology University Network, and is Board President at Data & Society Research Institute.