Riley Wong

Riley Wong is the Principal of Emergent Research, a research lab and consultancy investigating digital infrastructure for community privacy, agency, and consent, with an emphasis on collective data action, community infrastructure, privacy-preserving data governance, and collective governance. 

Riley co-founded the Community Privacy Residency in Taipei and Berlin, convening an international network of experts to co-create privacy infrastructure by and with vulnerable communities. Previously, they were a machine learning engineer working on AI fairness at Google; award-winning investigative data journalism at ProPublica; and researcher at Penn Medicine. Their work has been published or presented at MIT, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, and Penn, and covered by TIME, MIT Tech Review, Boston Globe, and Mother Jones.