Gender, Power, and Emerging Technology

Christine Haskell, Ph.D., is a scholar-practitioner and advisor specializing in AI/data governance, leadership, and values-based decision-making.

• Introduction; Christine HaskellChapter 1. Ethics as Fermentation: Ubuntu and Ma’at as Measures of Relational Intelligence Needed to Continually Govern Fair and Inclusive AI Futures; Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman and Annette MarkhamChapter 2. Herstory as Analytic Lens: Absence, Distortion, and the Politics of Knowledge in Large Language Models; Kira SjöbergChapter 3. Governing the Heart of the Machine: Redesigning AI Safety When Institutions Parent Through Parents; Christine Haskell and Leah JacobsChapter 4. Is Friendship A Technology? Governing Relational Drift with ScenarioSHIFT; Tricia FriedmanChapter 5. AI Doesn't Mentor Like We Do: Latina Cultural Wisdom and the Future of Human-Centered Leadership; Emi BarresiChapter 6. Beyond Bias: Charting Feminist Futures for AI-Powered Women’s Health; Johnna D. Wesley, Heather Stegner, and Heather WardChapter 7. Empowering Women by Governing Legibility: Redressing Protocol for Fintech and Green Finance in Nigeria; Nubi AcheboChapter 8. AI Governance is Hyperlocal: A Participatory Framework for Ethical Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Local Government; Sarah Bland

The most interesting interventions do not simply critique existing systems; they change our ability to perceive them. Gender, Power, and Emerging Technology does exactly that, showing how questions of care, consent, refusal, and repair belong at the heart of governance rather than at its periphery. In doing so, it bridges knowing and acting, making this an intellectually generous and practically ambitious collection.