Quito Tsui is a PhD student in environmental social sciences at Stanford University, focusing on sustainable development after conflict. She leads the MERL Tech Initiative’s Humanitarian AI+MERL Working Group. Her latest book chapter, “The Logic of Biometrics and Organizational Accountability,” appears in Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World, ed. Ana Beduschi, Massimo Morelli, and Aaron Martin (Routledge, 2025).
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