How Kathleen Siminyu created Kenya's go-to space for Women in Machine Learning Montreal AI Ethics Institute

Kathleen Siminyu is a data scientist & machine learning engineer who is Regional Coordinator for the Artificial Intelligence for Development – Africa Network. She is Co-Founder of the Nairobi Women in Machine Learning & Data Science community, and part of the Deep Learning Indaba Steering Committee. Her other interests include natural language processing for African languages and low-cost hardware robotics. We share this story as a demonstration of how AI can indirectly bring people together and empower communities instead of downgrade, divide, or discriminate against them. We believe that community leaders have an important role to play in defining humanity's place in a world of algorithms.