Dr. Flynn Coleman
AC4 Visiting Scholar
Dr. Flynn Coleman is an author, international human rights attorney, political scientist, environmental advocate, and professor.
She is currently the Visiting Scholar in the Women, Peace, and Leadership Program at Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) and a Visiting Professor in the School of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
Flynn has been named the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Fellow at the Information Society Law Center at the University of Milan, a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Carr Center, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.
She has also been a Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State, a Henry Luce Scholar, and a Council on Foreign Relations Stephen M. Kellen Member.
Flynn's scholarship and teaching span war crimes and transitional justice, emerging technologies and AI, environmental and human rights, behavioral science, and the future of democracy. She has taught at NYU School of Law, King’s College London, The New School, Parsons School of Design, and beyond. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, the Boston Globe, the Irish Times, Literary Hub, Tech Policy Press, and Nautilus Magazine, among others.
Flynn is the author of A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are, a groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of humanely designed AI. She has worked with the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the UNHCR, and other institutions around the globe.
She holds degrees from Georgetown University, UC Berkeley School of Law, and the London School of Economics, and has also studied at La Sorbonne, the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, La Universidad de Chile, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal, and l'Université de Genève. Flynn has lived across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. She currently divides her time between New York and Italy.
Website: flynncoleman.community