Mara Mills  

• Associate professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU
• Co-director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies
• Author of Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality
• Twitter

Meredith Whittaker

• Co-founder of the AI Now Institute
• Minderoo Research Professor at New York University
• Founder of Google’s Open Research group
• Author of the report Disability, Bias and AI
• Twitter

Sara Hendren

• Professor at Olin College of Engineering
• Author of What Can A Body Do: How We Meet the Built World
• Co-author of the report Disability, Bias and AI
• Twitter

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California Proposition 22, App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative (2020) - Ballotpedia

Uber Director of Policy, Cities and Transportation Shin-pei Tsay on Prop 22

Gig Workers Collective

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