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43+ Must-Follow Women Leaders in Artificial Intelligence

Writer's picture: Leslie GreenwoodLeslie Greenwood

Updated: Jul 15, 2024

One morning, I was trying to think of names of women I knew who were leading the way in AI. Maybe it was a lack of coffee, but I could only come up with a few. Frustrated and curious, I started Googling and stumbled upon an article by Forbes: A Call For A Systemic Dismantling: These Women Refuse To Be Hidden Figures In The Development Of AI. The article cites quite a few bothersome realities in the space: the sidelining and marginalization of women in artificial intelligence as well as a shocking lack of credit for those who are playing key roles in development and ethics. Of course, I had to make a post about it and, based on the reaction to my post, I am not alone in my dismay and frustration.   



As we first set out to do more generally for executive women leaders (the mission of Wednesday Women is to highlight executive women to celebrate their authentic leadership on more feeds, stages, and podcasts) I wanted to do something similar for women in the field of AI, And so we’re presenting here a list of women – only a few of the many – who are worth following and learning from in the field. 


Our motto at WW is to make a ripple of change in the world – so follow these women in your social feed, read the papers they publish, and start creating a more balanced view of the AI space for yourself as you grow your own knowledge. 




Liza Adams | AI Advisor & Fractional CMO @ GrowthPath Partners


Michelle Bacharach | Chief Executive Officer @ FINDMINE


Amanda Bickerstaff | Founder and CEO @ AI for Education EO



Erin Reddick - Featured on Wednesday Women

👆Erin Reddick | Founder @ ChatBlackGPT™


Dr. Joy Buolamwini | Artist-in-Chief and President @ The Algorithmic Justice League


Rana el Kaliouby | AI Advisor @ Smart Eye


Fei-Fei Li | Sequoia Professor of Computer Science @ Stanford University


Timnit Gebru | Founder and Executive Director @ The Distributed AI Research Institute



Jenny Kay Pollock, Dr. Cari Miller, and Noelle Russell

👆Jenny Kay Pollock | Founder @ Women And AI


👆Dr. Cari  Miller | Principal, AI Governance & Research @ The Center for Inclusive Change


👆Noelle Russell | Chief AI Officer @ AI Leadership Institute


Sarah Guo | Founder @ Conviction


Elena Gurevich | Founder and Co-Host @ AI and Real Life: Not Your Usual Take


Chip Huyen | VIP of AI and OSS @ Voltron Data


Jennifer  S. Ives | Co-Founder and CEO @ Wateringhole.ai 


Kate Kallot | Founder & CEO at Amini



Women in AI presents Sonia Dumas, Maryrose Lyons, and Lillian Pierson
Sonia Dumas, Maryrose Lyons, and Lillian Pierson

👆Sonia Dumas | Founder and Speaker @ Curio Haus


👆Maryrose Lyons | Founder @ AI Institute


👆Lillian Pierson | Fractional CMO and Growth Marketing Leader @ Data-Mania, LLC


Valentine Goddard | Founder and Executive Director @ AI Impact Alliance


Sharon Goldman | AI Reporter @ Fortune


Preksha Kaparwan | Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer @ Alphaa AI


Cassie Kozyrkov | Chief Executive Officer @ Data Scientific


Helen Lee Kupp - Featured on Wednesday Women

👆Helen Lee Kupp | Co-Founder and CEO @ Women Defining AI


Anna Makanju | Vice President, Global Affairs @ OpenAI


Ranjani Mani | Director and Country Head, Generative AI @ Microsoft


Elizabeth McCalley | Founder and CEO @ StartStak


Marily Nika | Founder @ AI Product Academy


Namee Oberst | Co-Founder @ AI Bloks


Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek | Founder and CEO @ Clarity AI


Aliisa Rosenthal | Head of Sales @ OpenAI


Lara Shackelford | CEO and Founder, Chief AI Officer @ Fidere.ai


Mia Shah-Dand | Founder @ Women in AI Ethics™




👆Kate Carter | AI Strategy & Student Success Manager @ Mia - Mission Impact Academy


👆Maria Vechtomova | Co-Founder @ Marvelous MLOps


👆Rebecca Bilbro | Founder and CTO @ Rotational Labs, Inc.


Cathy McPhillips | Chief Growth Officer @ Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute- Chief Growth Officer


Allie K. Miller | Self-employed- Fortune 500 AI Advisor and Angel Investor


Heather Murray | Founder @ AI for Non-Techies


Aishwarya Srinivasan | Founder and Mentor @ lluminate AI


Dalith Steiger-Gablinger | Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ SwissCognitive and AI Ventures


Anne Laure Thibaud (Thieullent) | Executive Vice Presidenty - Data, AI, and Analytics Group @ Capgemini


Carissa Véliz | Associate Professor @ University of Oxford


Claire Xie | Founder @ ClinkAI




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