Clarence Okoh

Clarence Okoh is a civil and human rights attorney working at the intersection of race, technology, and the law. He is a cofounder of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization in Education, a national advocacy network defending youth justice in the digital age. Clarence’s work in the field began with leading a civil rights campaign with community partners in Pasco County, Florida, which successfully challenged one of the first documented school-based predictive policing programs in US history. He now serves as Senior Attorney for Civil Rights & Technology at TechTonic Justice. He supports community advocates, policymakers, researchers, the media, and philanthropy in protecting vulnerable communities from algorithmic harms. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Just Tech Fellows at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). He previously worked at civil society organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Center on Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar.