Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson
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Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson served as the inaugural special adviser to the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network. Her Center-supported project State of Surveillance: Police Use of AI and Facial Recognition in Communities of Color exposed AI and police facial recognition abuses, leading to police policy changes and a U.S. appeals court ruling that found a "spy plane" over Baltimore unconstitutional.
Her second grant project, When the Money Goes Away: Saving Lives in Uganda and Beyond, chronicled the fallout of massive U.S. health aid cuts—impacts and adaptations, with work featured by the Solutions Journalism Network.
Cavanaugh Simpson is a lecturer in the master's in science writing program at Johns Hopkins University, a former staff writer at the Miami Herald, and a freelance journalist who has reported from China, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Argentina, and Cuba, including stories focused on human rights for transgender people and dissident Cuban journalists in Havana.
Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, and Scientific American, among other outlets.
