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Deb Donig is an American academic, ethicist, and a public intellectual known for her work in ethics, human rights, and technology.^[1] She is a lecturer^[2] at the University of California, Berkeley, and a public speaker specializing in ethical issues related to academia, media, and society.^[3] Donig is also the host of the "Technically Human" podcast,^[4] a show that explores the intersection of ethics and technology.

Donig pursued her PhD in English Literature at UCLA, focused on human rights. Her research focused on the nature of genocide in law and culture. Subsequently, she founded the Ethical Technology Initiative^[5] while serving as a Professor of English Literature at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). She is responsible for creating a new vision of education for the university undergraduate curriculum that blended tech with ethics and humanistic inquiry, focused on ethical philosophy and its application to contemporary social and technological challenges.^[6] In 2020, she was awarded a Cal Poly Strategic Research Initiative Grant Award,^[7] which served to develop a new collaboration of faculty and students to research the future of ethics and technology in education. In 2021, Donig was awarded a National Science Foundation Research Grant (NSF) to develop a new understanding of the ethical technology workforce.^[8] In 2022, Donig was named the Belfer Endowed Fellow at the Center for Technology and Society at ADL.^[9] In 2023, Siegel Family Endowment awarded her with a two-year fellowship to assess the future of a responsible technology workforce, in collaboration with All Tech Is Human (ATIH).^[10]

Donig teaches ethics at UC Berkeley^[2] and is an international public speaker. She has been an advocate for integrating ethical frameworks into public discourse and has spoken on the alignment (or misalignment) of institutional values with personal and professional ethics. In 2020, she served on the Biden/Harris Policy Strategy Team in Higher Education. As a policy expert, she drafted policy memos for and advised the campaign’s First 100 Day priority strategy for the Administration. Outside of academia, she consults on film and television projects, including the Amazon Prime Series Hunters produced by Jordan Peele and starring Al Pacino. In 2020, she was featured as an expert in the documentary Hunters: Behind the Scenes,^[11] where she discussed the ethics of representing the Holocaust in cinema and fiction.

As the host of the "Technically Human" podcast, Donig interviews major writers, thinkers, and technologists in order to discuss ethical dilemmas in modern society, exploring topics such as artificial intelligence, corporate responsibility, human rights, and the future of academia.

Donig is vegan, a decision informed by her studies in ethical philosophy and her deep empathy for non-human animals. She lives in Berkeley, California.

• "The Facts of Reconciliation: Fictions of Truth in the South African TRC" Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, November 2024
• "Textimony: The Grammar of Atrocity" Journal of Comparative Literature, March 2024
• "The Technology of Interpretation" Textual Practice, July 2020
• "Seeing Double in Indra Sinha's Animal's People: Local Toxins, Global Toxicity, and the Universal Bhopal" Journal of Postcolonial Writing, January 2017
• "Fictions of Eichmann: The Authentic Self, Authenticity, and the Facts of Atrocity" Textual Practice, December 2017
• "The Loss of Voice and the Voice of Loss: Memory, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in South African Literature", in Trauma, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing. Ed. Jaspal K. Singh and Rajendra Chetty. New York: Peter Lang
• Reclaiming the Waters of Democracy, in New America’s Public Interest Technology Academic Network

• MIT Tech Review: The state of responsible technology featuring Professor Deb Donig
• Document Detectives Use Smudges and Bloodstains to Investigate the Past
• Two CLA Professors Receive National Science Foundation Grant to Assess the Profession of Ethical Technology
• Ethics and Human Rights in Tech with Deb Donig
• Tech Stands Up: Deb Donig on Defining "The Good", Building Diverse Teams, SciFi and Utopia
• 2021 Thought Leaders: English Professor Deb Donig
• Creating a Vision for Ethical Technology
• Spotlight: Cal Poly’s Ethical Technology Initiative