The people behind the work.

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir is a product policy leader, civil rights organizer, educator, and Cannes-recognized executive producer whose career sits at the intersection of technology, media, and social impact.

He served as a product policy lead at Meta, where he shaped policy for products reaching billions of users globally. He previously served as Director of the ACLU New York — Central New York Chapter, where he led civil rights litigation, public education, and community organizing across a twelve-county region.

Yusuf is currently faculty at Syracuse University, where he teaches AI and Justice — a course examining how artificial intelligence systems reproduce, amplify, and sometimes challenge existing structures of power and inequality. His pedagogy connects policy analysis, technical literacy, and community organizing.

As an executive producer, his work has been recognized at Cannes. He brings that same commitment to storytelling, craft, and consequence to AISDG's programming and convening work.