Mary L. Gray is Principal Investigator of Project Resolve and founder of The Resolve Institute, an independent, focused research organization dedicated to supporting community-driven AI innovation.
Prior to launching the Institute, Mary spent more than a decade as a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, where her work examined the social, ethical, and labor implications of data-driven technologies.
She is currently a visiting research affiliate at MIT and faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, with affiliations in anthropology and gender studies, at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on or has served several boards, including the American Anthropological Association, Data Nutrition Project, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, and the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. Mary also founded and, for more than a decade, chaired the Microsoft Research IRB and Ethics Review Program—the only federally registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry. In 2020, Dr. Gray was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.
