Dr. Ajunwa is an award-winning tenured law professor and a graduate of Yale Law School and Columbia University. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School and the Founding Director of the A.I. and Future of Work Program. She was a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University in 2016 and has been a Faculty Associate with the Center since 2017.
She was a Resident Fellow and now an Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Dr. Ajunwa is a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). She is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). She has worked as advisory board member or consultant with Fortune 500 tech companies.
Dr. Ajunwa’s main research interests are in A.I. governance, A.I. and Business, A.I. and employment, and A.I. in society. Dr. Ajunwa’s book, The Quantified Worker (Cambridge University Press) examines the role of A.I. technologies in the workplace and their effects on management practices. Dr. Ajunwa is a Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research. She previously served as a Board member for the Institute for Africa Development (IAD) and for the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP). She has worked as advisory board member and consultant with Fortune 500 tech companies.
Dr. Ajunwa’s has been published in top law journals like Yale Law Journal, The California Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Berkeley Journal of Law and Technology, the North Carolina Law Review, etc. She has been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress (Committee on Education and Labor), worked with governmental agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC), and has served as a keynote speaker at national and international conferences. Dr. Ajunwa’s writing has also been published in major media such as the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Harvard Business Review, the ACLU Blog, etc..
