Kerry McInerney

Kerry McInerney is an academic and writer, originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based between London and Cambridge. Her nonfiction and fiction writing explores themes of race, gender, identity, and technology, and draws heavily on her own experiences of growing up multiracial in Aotearoa in the 1990s-2010s. She is interested in how new and emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), function as gateways for understanding how race and gender shape ourselves and the world around us.

Kerry is also a successful podcaster, co-hosting The Good Robot podcast on feminism, gender and technology, and is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. She regularly appears on radio and podcasts to discuss new developments in the field of AI. Kerry is one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2022), one of Computing’s Rising Stars 30 (2023), and she has been shortlisted for the Champion of Women - Champion of Innovation (2022), Women of the Future - Technology and Digital (2022), and Women in Tech Excellence - Rising Star (2022) awards.

Kerry is the co-editor of two academic edited collections: Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press) and The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism (Bloomsbury Academic). She is the co-author of the forthcoming book Reprogram: Why Big Tech is Broken and How Feminism Can Fix It (with Dr Eleanor Drage, Princeton University Press).