Sara Marcucci

Sara Marcucci is a researcher and strategist exploring how technology shapes and is shaped by struggles for environmental justice and political possibility. She is the founder 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 is currently a Research Fellow at The GovLab at NYU, where she contributes to policy and research initiatives focused on digital self-determination and 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.

Previously, she has worked on digital rights, data governance, and public-interest innovation with institutions including the European Commission, IFC at The World Bank, Nesta, and the Open Data Institute. Sara holds an MSc in Data & Society (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.