Brandie Nonnecke, PhD

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI.us). She was the Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley and was an Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) where she directed the Tech Policy Initiative, a collaboration between CITRIS and GSPP to strengthen tech policy education, research, and impact. She was appointed to the California Privacy Protection Agency Board in 2025. Nonnecke is the Director of Our Better Web, a program that supports empirical research, policy analysis, training, and engagement to address the rise of online harms. She served as co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law and the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub. Brandie is the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series that debunks misunderstandings around emerging technologies and the laws and policies that shape them. Her research has been featured in Science, Wired, NPR, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, Buzzfeed News, among others. Nonnecke received the SF Business Times INSPIRE Award for her leadership in AI in 2024 and was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021.