SNEHA REVANUR
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UNITED STATES, 16
Project: Encode Justice
Focus Area: Algorithm Justice
Sneha Revanur is a junior at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose, California, and the Founder and President of Encode Justice – an international organization working to advance racial, social and economic justice in the age of artificial intelligence.
Sneha has mobilized hundreds of students across 30+ U.S. states and 20+ countries to fight for an equitable technological future. With roots in local organizing, Encode Justice's policy, advocacy, education and research initiatives have already made a tangible impact.
Their first initiative successfully opposed California Proposition 25, which would have mandated the use of racially biased risk assessment algorithms. Encode Justice is currently resisting government use of facial recognition technology, which disproportionately misidentifies people of color and has caused the wrongful arrests of Black men.
Sneha's has helped introduce a surveillance ordinance in San Jose, directly contributed to the passage of a facial recognition ban in Minneapolis, oversaw an AI ethics workshop program reaching 3,000+ high school students, many of which were Black, Brown and low-income, and trained Encode Justice’s youth lobbyists, who have met with 50+ local, state and federal lawmakers.
Sneha wrote and published an op-ed for Teen Vogue about the success of the organization and the importance of student advocacy in the pursuit of algorithmic justice. She is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of a youth political journalism collective, a congressional campaign veteran and an avid writer.