Dr.Alexa Alice Joubin

 Alexa Alice Joubin (name pronunciation) is the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award and holder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. She writes about artificial intelligence (AI), race, gender, cultural globalization, Shakespeare, disability, and film and theatre. She teaches in the Departments of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, University Honors Program, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute and the Co-director the Taiwan Education and Research Program (Sigur Center for Asian Studies). She is a faculty of the GW Trustworthy AI Initiative (her Digital Humanities Institute is a partner program of TAI). She is also an affiliate at the NSF's Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS). In 2024, she was named the inaugural Public Interest Technology Scholar (news story).