Mutale Nkonde is the Founder and CEO of AI for the People, based in the United States. Mutale is a researcher, policy advisor, and media commentator advocating for policies and practices that reduce the expression of algorithmic bias in the design, deployment and governance in AI systems used in public life. Mutale founded AI for the People, a global nonprofit that provides advisory services to major decision makers interested in responsible approaches to AI development. AI for the People has provided consultation services to the Biden Harris White House, the UN Business and Technology Project. The organization will be joining colleagues at UNESCO in Paris in June 2025 to discuss how the use of AI driven social media algorithms impact Black people's access to democracy across the globe. In 2025 AI for the People became shareholder activists, using their proxy votes to encourage the world's largest AI developers to adopt responsible approaches to AI. One of the earliest victories was voting for Microsoft to conduct research into the expression of misinformation and disinformation in the Generative AI models in their portfolio. Additionally, the organization participated in voting for Apple to protect DEI initiatives. Mutale's work began when she became the lead advocate for the Algorithmic Accountability Act, which was first introduced to the US House of Representative in 2019, while she was a fellow at Data and Society. This work includes impact assessments in engineering workflows, so regulators can gain insight on the impact AI systems have on the American populace before market release. This act has been reintroduced in 2022 and 2023 with the hope that it will be reintroduced during the second Trump Term. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, where her research focuses on far-right narratives migrate from white to Black communities across the globe. Which is inspired by her work over the last five years with the US Tik Tok Content Advisory Council, where she works alongside six other national experts on how online discourse impacts offline behavior. Mutale has a B.Sc. in sociology from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, a master's in American studies from Columbia University, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Stanford. Mutale is currently a visiting policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, UK. Mutale is a Fellow of Salzburg Global.