Sara Marcucci

Sara Marcucci is a researcher and consultant exploring the socioenvironmental impacts of data-driven automated systems.

She is the Founder and Director of the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance, a global collective of researchers, activists, and artists committed to exposing and challenging the socio-environmental harms of AI systems across their entire lifecycle–from mineral extraction and labor exploitation to infrastructure, deployment, and waste. Through this work, she seeks to foster critical dialogue, collective resistance, and radical alternatives to extractivist AI futures.

She independently consults with public and private organizations on AI governance, with a focus on participatory, community-rooted approaches. She also collaborates with Privacy Network on advocacy and lobbying efforts around AI governance and digital rights, with a focus on influencing policy in the Italian context.

She started exploring the social implications of technology in 2017, and has worked on digital rights, data governance, and AI policy with institutions including the GovLab at NYU, the European Commission, UNICEF, IFC at The World Bank, Nesta, and the Open Data Institute (ODI). Sara holds an MSc in Data & Society (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

You can email her at: sara@aiplanetaryjustice.com