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ROGERS POLICY CONSULTANCY
SPEAKING & PRESS
Explore the extensive archive of Fabian Rogers & RPC, showcasing a diverse range of public speaking engagements, fireside chats, impactful testimonies, op-eds, media publications, press publications, & various speaking events. Discover insights & inspiration from our past presentations.
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A YouTube playlist curated from a myriad of public speaking engagements captured & shared on the platform by Fabian Rogers of RPC & other organizations invested in ethics & justice.
A 2022 public speech from Fabian Rogers of RPC to help unveil the Biden-Harris White House Administration's AI Bill of Rights. This policy aimed to make automated systems work for the American People.
Hosted by the Biden-Harris White House Administration's Office of Science & Technology Policy (WHOSTP).
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a panel speaker during a 2023 panel briefing on artificial intelligence & civil rights.
Co-Hosted by US Senator Cory Booker & the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a panel speaker during a 2023 panel briefing on the state of surveillance in New York City, ranging from facial recognition in our apartments to monitoring of our workplaces, to decades of police surveillance of Muslim, immigrant, & BIPOC communities.
Hosted by The Surveillance Resistance Lab, The Policing & Social Justice Project, & Amnesty International USA.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a panel speaker during a 2023 NYS legislature & experts panel briefing on amplifying the need to enforce, regulate, & mitigate the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) militarized use of surveillance and data aggregation tools on civilians, which could mitigate the wrongful arrest of marginalized communities in New York.
Hosted by Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). Moderated by NYS Senator Kristen Gonzalez & Assemblymember Harvey Epstein.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a panel speaker during a 2022 panel briefing on exploring current & emerging uses of technology that affect the equity of opportunity in employment, education, housing, & financial well-being. Panelists also discussed the state of reforms & interventions that can shift technology innovation toward more equitable outcomes, as well as technical mechanisms to ensure that AI use does not erode civil rights & liberties.
Co-Hosted by the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies & The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (WHOSTP).
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a panel speaker during a 2019 AI Now Symposium panel briefing on sharing the story of members of a Brooklyn tenants coalition that has been fighting the installation of facial recognition entry systems in their buildings, and raising big questions about tenant rights and privacy in the process.
Hosted by the NYU AI Now Institute.
Moderated by Mona Patel of Brooklyn Legal Services & Co-Panelist Tranae Moran of the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association & Ocean Hill-Brownsville Alliance.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a campaign advocate during the ongoing Amnesty International "Ban The Scan" Campaign. Fabian Rogers and his colleagues, Tranae Moran of the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenant Association (APTTA) & the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Alliance (OHBA), & Black Lives Matter (BLM) Protestor Dwreck Ingram share their personal accounts of facing surveillance, either through facial recognition by predatory landlords or by the NYPD.
Produced by Amnesty International.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights as a panel speaker during a 2020 panel briefing with multiple sector experts on Automated Decision Systems (ADSs) used to make decisions across every major area of New Yorkers’ lives, including Public Housing, Education, Employment, Child Welfare, & Policing. This briefing helps community stakeholders learn about this widely used technology & how to demand change in its adoption and operation.
Co-Hosted by the Internet Society New York (NY) Chapter & the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Fabian Rogers of RPC shares his testimony with his comrades in the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & Brooklyn Legal Services' Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) about their encounters with private-sector surveillance & their efforts to combat landlord intimidation. These testimonies were in response to the unveiling of NYCC Bills Int-1170, Int-1758, & Int-1672.
Hosted by the New York City Council (NYCC) Committee on Technology.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & his testimony alongside his comrades in the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Crazy/Genius podcast episode, comparing private-sector surveillance to surveillance of Muslim Uyghurs in China.
Produced by Derek Thompson of the Atlantic & Crazy/Genius.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & his testimony, alongside his comrade Tranae Moran of the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Alliance (OHBA), about their encounters with private-sector surveillance & their efforts to combat landlord intimidation. This was a 2021 coalition podcast recording for educational purposes for other affordable housing community stakeholders.
Produced by Kyle Arbuckle of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights about his encounters with private-sector surveillance & advocacy efforts to combat landlord intimidation. This was a 2020 organization podcast recording for educational purposes for other affordable housing community stakeholders.
Produced by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP).
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers his insights alongside his comrades from Brownsville Green Justice (BGJ, f.k.a. Brownsville Residents Green Committee [BRGC]) in opposing the National Grid-developed North Brooklyn Pipeline, which they learned about in the summer of 2020 in this BRIC-TV mini-documentary. For a new environmental collective, the Brownsville Residents Green Committee, the stakes feel particularly high; for them, it’s not only an issue of environmental protection but also the latest wrong in a long history of environmental injustice.
Produced by Ross Tuttle, Claire Haughey, & Anna Lueck of BRIC-TV.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise on combating private-sector facial recognition & surveillance during a 2019 NeurIPS panel briefing. This panel briefing was part of a series focused on assessing the gaps between fairness & ethics in machine learning development & deployment, and their implications for human interaction.
Hosted by the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Moderated by Madeleine Elish of Data & Society.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise on potential solutions to combat unethical machine learning methods & practices during a 2019 NeurIPS panel. This panel briefing was part of a series focused on assessing the gaps between fairness & ethics in machine learning development & deployment, & their implications for human interaction.
Hosted by the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Moderated by Emmanuel Moss of Data & Society & CUNY GS.
A 2023 Op-Ed published in City Limits' Opinion Section of their online publications. The New York City Council’s (NYCC) new bill banning biometric data collection in residential buildings is a strong step forward in giving tenants and their guests greater protection against landlords' encroachment and modern surveillance technologies.
Co-Authored by Fabian Rogers & Zuliang "Patrick" Li.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights & expertise on the potential shortcomings of unregulated & unvalidated AI, facial recognition, surveillance, & machine learning to German & American Artificial Intelligence experts who convened to find common ground on data ethics, privacy, & the benefits of AI.
Hosted by the Future Forum & the German Center for Research & Innovation of New York (NY).
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered co-writing insights to speak out against proposals for facial recognition systems in residential spaces throughout New York City. This op-ed was an opportunity to fill a gap in the flow of information from tech & political communities to our own community stakeholders as community advocates.
Co-Written by Tranae Moran & Fabian Rogers.
Published by the NYU AI Now Institute.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise with his comrade, Tranae Moran of Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & Ocean Hill Brownsville Alliance (OHBA) on what we learned through our organizing work, & how the anti-surveillance struggle fits into the broader fight for environmental justice, social housing, & community reinvestment.
Published by J. Khadijah Abdurahman of Logic(s) Mag.
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Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise with his comrade, Tranae Moran of Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & Ocean Hill Brownsville Alliance (OHBA), on what we learned through our organizing work in this Harvard academic journal, and how it relates to algorithmic bias and automated anti-blackness in algorithmic technologies.
Published by Mutale Nkonde of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Journal of African American Policy.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights and expertise along with other technology, legal, cultural, & private sector experts on the debate over how & whether public funds should be used to deploy facial recognition in vulnerable communities. In this podcast episode, the advocates, technologists, & dissidents share the messy consequences that come with a technology that can identify you almost anywhere is deployed without any clear playbook for regulating or managing it.
Produced by Jennifer Strong, Tate Ryan-Mosley, Emma Cillekens, and Karen Hao of the MIT Technology Review.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this New York Times (NYT) article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Ginia Bellafante of The New York Times.
A 2023 article on Senator Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) convening of experts and advocates to explore the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on civil rights. Fabian Rogers of RPC was in a panel discussion held at the Capitol to acknowledge that technology can exacerbate discrimination.
Published by Cameren Barnes of Vigour Times.
A 2023 article recapping a raucous city council hearing, lawmakers and activists alike argued in favor of bills banning biometric tech in residential buildings and large venues. Fabian Rogers of RPC shares his testimony & insights on algorithmic bias in police surveillance technologies & AI.
Published by Mack Deguerin of Gizmodo.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Spectrum News NY1 article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Produced by Alyssa Paolicelli of Spectrum NY 1 News.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Fast Company article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Yasmin Gange of Fast Company.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights and thoughts on the unveiling of the Biden-Harris White House Administration's AI Bill of Rights. This policy aimed to make automated systems work for the American People.
Published by Mack Deguerin of Gizmodo.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Vox article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Rebecca Heilweil of Vox.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Gothamist article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Elizabeth Kim of the Gothamist.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Government Technology article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Sarina Trangle of amNewYork & Government Technology.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this amNY article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Sarina Trangle of amNewYork.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights with his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Baffler article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Elizabeth Kim of the Gothamist.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights on behalf of his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Springer Nature article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Elizabeth Gibney of Springer Nature.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights, expertise, & testimony alongside his comrades from the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & the Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) in this Urban Omnibus article about how they combatted their landlord's attempt to impose facial recognition surveillance on tenants.
Published by Erin McElroy of Urban Omnibus.
An archival listing of the academic hosting of a two-day online symposium about ongoing hot topic events in New York City. Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise during this moderated panel discussion focused on the local infrastructure of surveillance, tracking, and data collection in New York City. Panelists considered what it means to live under ever-present surveillance, how such an infrastructure infringes on basic human rights, and strategies for public resistance.
Hosted by the Graduate Students of the Hunter College Department of Art & Art History with Koyo Kouoh.
Fabian Rogers of RPC and his comrades at the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) are highlighted as a successful case study on the Algorithmic Justice League's (AJL) Facial Recognition webpage. This case study highlights the successful campaign of combating unwarranted, unregulated, unwanted, ineffective, and unverified facial recognition surveillance technology in affordable housing.
Published by the Algorithmic Justice League.​
Fabian Rogers of RPC offered insights & expertise at this participatory research symposium to catalyze the research community by enabling conversations between computing researchers and those impacted by artificial intelligence systems. Through active participation, participants were given the opportunity to better understand the research opportunities that will create improved systems for the users impacted by the systems.
Hosted & Published by the Computing Community Consortium.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise in this speaking series that focuses on facial recognition tech: how it is being used by both law enforcement & private interests to surveil New Yorkers, & the efforts to curb its abuse.
Hosted & Produced by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP).
Fabian Rogers of RPC and his comrades at the Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association (APTTA) & Brooklyn Legal Services Tenants' Rights Coalition (BLSTRC) are highlighted as a successful case study in the NYU AI Now Institute's 2019 Report. This report highlights the need to understand & address issues raised by the rapid introduction of AI across core social domains.
Published by the NYU AI Now Institute.​
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise to this PBS publication alongside his comrades from Brownsville Green Justice (BGJ), New York Law School (NYLS), & the National Center for Law & Economic Justice (NCLEJ), to oppose the National Grid-developed North Brooklyn Pipeline. In challenging National Grid's racially targeted fracking gas pipeline, BGJ, NYLS, & NCLEJ submitted a federal legal complaint seeking to have the pipeline declared unlawful.
Published by Yessenia Funes of PBS' Peril & Promise.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise to this City publication column alongside his comrades from Brownsville Green Justice (BGJ), New York Law School (NYLS), & the National Center for Law & Economic Justice (NCLEJ) to oppose the National Grid-developed North Brooklyn Pipeline. In challenging National Grid's racially targeted fracking gas pipeline, BGJ, NYLS, & NCLEJ submitted a federal legal complaint seeking to have the pipeline declared unlawful.
Published by Adam Mahoney of The City & Capital B.​
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise in this virtual speaking & public education series that focuses on facial recognition tech: how it is being used by public & private sector interests to surveil citizens, & the efforts to curb its abuse. This is an archival posting of the event.
Hosted & Produced by Ariana Faye Allensworth of Pioneer Works.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise to this academic white paper briefing about how to develop meaningful interventions and strategies around AI and procurement. With a structured understanding of existing public procurement processes to identify how they can best intersect and support community needs, experts can create a new framework for public procurement guidelines and standards for public-use data science applications that identify & mitigate gaps & risks in AI procurement processes.
Hosted & published by New York University (NYU), Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, & Parity.​
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Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise in this academic public speaking & education series alongside his comrades from Brownsville Green Justice (BGJ), New York Law School (NYLS), & the National Center for Law & Economic Justice (NCLEJ) to oppose the National Grid-developed North Brooklyn Pipeline. In challenging National Grid's racially targeted fracking gas pipeline, BGJ, NYLS, & NCLEJ submitted a federal legal complaint seeking to have the pipeline declared unlawful. . This is an archival posting of the event.
Hosted & Produced by Brooklyn Law School’s Disability and Civil Rights Clinic and New York Law School’s Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic.
Fabian Rogers of RPC offers insights & expertise to this academic publication report that explores a “soft law” approach to dealing with the race to the bottom around policing technologies. Specifically, it examines the viability of an independent certification body—governmental or not-for-profit—that would perform both an efficacy review and an ethical evaluation of vendors’ policing technology products, assessing them along privacy, racial justice, and civil rights and liberties dimensions, among others.
Published by the NYU School of Law Policing Project.​
