EM Lewis-Jong

EM is the Founder and Vice President of Mozilla Data Collective – the data platform that’s rebuilding the AI ecosystem with community needs at the center. They were previously the Director at Common Voice, the world’s largest open crowdsourced speech corpus, spanning 300+ languages and 750,000 open community contributors. EM has led language data research and community governance program backed by the US National Science Foundation, NVIDIA, Gates Foundation, and GIZ. Before Mozilla, they were a founding executive in CivTech, working on sharing information, data and knowledge across borders. They have been on the NLP TAP for Lacuna Fund, an Industry Board Advisor for Speech Technologies at the University of Groningen and an Advisor for the Caribbean Parliaments’ digitization project. Their first degree was from the University of Oxford (BA, MA), and their doctoral research on AI agent configuration is based at the University of Sussex's Creative Technology Lab.