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Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation, a bipartisan organization working within and across political ideologies to address a broad range of policy issues raised by AI.

Short Bio

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation. She founded the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She was an Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) and a faculty co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law. She was appointed to the California Privacy Protection Agency Board in 2025. Brandie was the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series that debunked misunderstandings around emerging technologies and the laws and policies that shape them. Her research has been featured in Science, Wired, NPR, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, Buzzfeed News, among others. Brandie received the SF Business Times INSPIRE Award for her leadership in AI in 2024 and was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021.

Long Bio

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) where she directs the Tech Policy Initiative, a collaboration between CITRIS and GSPP to strengthen tech policy education, research, and impact. She was appointed to the California Privacy Protection Agency Board in 2025. Brandie is the Director of Our Better Web, a program that supports empirical research, policy analysis, training, and engagement to address the sharp rise of online harms. She is a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law where she leads the Project on Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Society. She also co-directs the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub, an interdisciplinary initiative training researchers to develop effective AI governance and policy frameworks.

Brandie is the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series that debunks misunderstandings around emerging technologies and the laws and policies that shape them.

Brandie served as a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She also completed fellowships at the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum, Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub, and the World Economic Forum.

Her research has been published in Science, Wired, Telecommunications Policy, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, among other outlets. Her work has been cited by the FTC, NIST, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as in the Washington Post, BBC, NPR, among other venues. Brandie received the SF Business Times INSPIRE Award for her leadership in AI in 2024 and was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021.