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Nikita Roy (she/her/hers)

Host of Newsroom Robots & Knight Fellow
International Center for Journalists
Toronto, Canada

Nikita Roy is a data scientist, journalist, and Harvard-recognized AI futurist.

She is currently a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists, focusing on AI literacy in the news industry. She leads the AI Journalism Lab and serves on the AI advisory board at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Additionally, she heads the development of the AI Discovery Course at JournalismAI at Polis, the journalism think tank at the London School of Economics.

Nikita is also the host of the globally acclaimed Newsroom Robots podcast incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs. It has ranked among the top technology podcasts in over 30 countries on Apple Podcasts.

She conducts AI workshops for newsrooms and universities, including The Economist, The Boston Globe, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Toronto. Her insights have been featured on BBC, CBC, Nieman Lab, Quartz and Yahoo Finance.

Nikita is the president of the Canadian Association of Journalists - National Capital Region chapter.

An alumna of Harvard University and the University of Toronto, Nikita develops AI products and advises on AI strategy.

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