Yusuf Abdul-Qadir

Yusuf is a tech policy and public management professional with over a decade and a half of experience across the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

He is currently a Product Policy Manager at Meta, where he manages product policies and content regulation strategy for Meta’s global news, creator and generative AI products. Prior to Meta, he was a Director and Senior Strategist for Racial Justice at the ACLU of NY, where he worked on policies for criminal legal reform, education equity, environmental justice, and privacy and technology. He also serves on the Faculty at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, where he teaches courses on information policy and technology management.

As an emerging public scholar, his interests are at the intersection of race, climate, emerging technologies and the governance and policy needs they bring about. He merges practice and theory as part of a team of researchers and activists working to scale the launch of the Internet Backpack, a humanitarian technology that provides affordable internet to rural and urban cities across Africa, to help serve as a means of implementation for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.

Yusuf graduated from Syracuse University, where he earned a BA in Political Science, and two Executive Masters in Public Administration and in International Relations, with Certificates of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Enterprise and National Security and Counterterrorism Studies from SUNY ESF and Syracuse University College of Law, respectively.

He is the host and producer of the Afro Futures Podcast on WAER, an affiliate of NPR, where he explored issues of race, culture, politics and technology.