Flynn Coleman, Ph.D.

Flynn Coleman is an author, international human rights attorney, political scientist, and educator.

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) at the Climate School, and a Lecturer in Columbia's Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program at the School of Professional Studies.

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 the Harvard Kennedy School and Carr Center, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.

She has also served as 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 research and teaching span war crimes and transitional justice, emerging technologies and AI, climate and human rights, behavioral science, and the future of democracy. She has taught at institutions including NYU School of Law, King’s College London, The New School, and Parsons School of Design.

Her writing has appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, the Boston Globe, the Irish Times, Literary Hub, Tech Policy Press, and Nautilus Magazine.

She 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. 

Flynn has worked with the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the UNHCR, the U.S. federal government, and other global organizations.

She holds degrees from Georgetown University, UC Berkeley School of Law, and the London School of Economics, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and has also studied at La Sorbonne, the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Chile, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, and Université de Genève. She has lived across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and currently divides her time between New York and Italy.