Mishal Khan is a senior researcher in the Technology and Work Program at the University of California Berkeley Labor Center. With a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago, she was trained as a historical sociologist examining histories of enslavement and abolition and the intersections of race, political economy, and empire. Khan’s work leverages an in-depth understanding of historical forms of labor subordination to critically analyze contemporary forms of precarity and exploitation in the US and global economy. Khan’s current work focuses on tracking and analyzing trends in labor-impacting AI legislation at the state and federal levels in the United States, as well as researching the impacts of new digital technologies on workers. Her work has covered a broad range of contemporary policy issues such as forced labor across global supply chains, labor migration, antitrafficking, and more recently the gig/platform economy and the digital workplace. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, working with gig workers in collaboration with the global Fairwork project, the University of Texas at Austin where she worked on future of work issues, and at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University.