Christelle Tessono

Christelle Tessono is a Technology Policy Researcher currently pursuing her graduate studies at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. She recently completed a two-year research fellowship as an inaugural Emerging Scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). She is interested in tackling the relationship between racial inequality and digital technology from a policy lens. As a result, this has led her to work on projects related to political advertising on social media platforms, gig work, facial recognition technology, data governance and AI regulation. In addition to her graduate work, she is currently working as a Policy & Research Assistant at the Dais, a public policy and leadership think tank based at the Toronto Metropolitan University as part of their AI governance portfolio.