Addie Achan
Ethical AI Governance Fellow 2026
Addie Achan is the founder and executive director of The Kaleidoscope Project, a nonprofit dedicated to de-risking, curating evidence for, and involving local communities in the "AI for Good" movement. Her previous experience in the space includes serving as a Google.org AI for Social Good Fellow at The Trevor Project, where she deployed AI applications to assist youth, and as the AI lead at the tech nonprofit accelerator Fast Forward, where she advised 100+ tech nonprofits in using AI.
She holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
About the project
"A localised, community-first AI governance framework designed for policymakers and civil society organisations operating outside Western contexts. The framework would move beyond rigid, top-down compliance checklists towards an intercultural methodology for auditing AI readiness, grounded in lived realities and structured to give communities agency over whether and how AI enters their spaces.
I’m starting this work at The Aspen Institute, and Globethics will help me deepen and deploy it."