Serena Dokuaa Oduro: Workshop, Talk, and Poetry Reading

Serena Dokuaa Oduro is a poet and AI policy expert focused on using both mediums to empower the public. Her poetry can be found in the book Fake AI by Meatspace Press and in No, Dear Mag, where she guest edited the November 2024 issue “Artifice”. She is a Ragdale HUMAN Residency Fellow and was a 2025 DISCO research network affiliate, both in support of her developing collection, To AI a Butterfly, which uses poetry to dig beneath the language of policy, computer science, and journalism to reveal the ideological and spiritual reckonings needed to build a just AI ecosystem. Serena is the Policy Manager at Data & Society Research Institute, where she leads the organization’s state-level policy engagement. Serena has given multiple presentations and talks about her policy and independent work on AI and Black feminism, including at ACM FAccT, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, UC Berkeley, Africa Law Tech Festival, and Credo AI’s Responsible AI Summit, where she was featured in their AI-conic Minds series. Her work has appeared in academic journals and news media, including Internet Policy Review, Cell Press' Patterns, and Politico.
1. April 29, 2026
Workshop: The Academy is Political: How Researchers Can Engage with Policy 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (BCaT Lab)

2. April 30, 2026
Lunch & Learn "What Use is an Algorithm to Lady Liberty?" A Luncheon on How the Creative Arts Can Empower Researchers" 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Optional Dinner 6:00 pm (BCaT Lab)

3. May 1, 2026

Book Read 1:00 PM (BCaT Lab)

Reception 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Serena Dokuaa Oduro will read from her in-development poetry collection, To AI a Butterfly. To AI, a Butterfly uses poetry to dig beneath the language of policy, computer science, and journalism, revealing the ideological and spiritual reckonings needed to build a just AI ecosystem and world.

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