Rashida Richardson is a visiting scholar at Rutgers Law School and the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and the Law and a senior fellow in the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund. She is scheduled to join the faculty at Northeastern Law as an Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science with the School of Law and the Department of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities in July 2021. Richardson previously was the director of policy research at the AI Now Institute, where she designed, implemented and coordinated research strategies and initiatives on law, policy, and civil rights. During her career as an attorney, researcher, and scholar, Richardson has engaged in science communication and public advocacy.