Claudia Ruiz is the Senior Civil Rights Advisor at UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, where she leads work at the intersection of civil rights, democracy, and technology. She studies how broadband access and adoption, artificial intelligence, and surveillance technologies are reshaping the lives of Latinos across the United States and fights to ensure these tools expand opportunity rather than deepen inequality.

 

Her work is guided by a simple conviction: the values we all share — fairness, dignity, freedom, equality — do not disappear when innovation moves faster than regulation. She sees the debates over artificial intelligence, social media, data privacy, and surveillance technologies as as critical decision points that determine who has opportunity, who is protected, and who is left out. For Claudia, the measure of innovation isn't what it builds — it's how many of us are able to share in it.

 

Claudia also leads UnidosUS’s work on voting rights and democracy reform and frequently speaks on the threats posed by online mis/disinformation, including the role of social media in amplifying false claims that suppress voters and undermine elections. Claudia also serves as co-chair of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ Media/Telecommunications Task Force and is a former co-chair of the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee