Clarence Okoh is a civil and human rights attorney whose work addresses the impact of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on vulnerable communities. He offers experience as an advocate, researcher, and litigator in service of social change. Okoh is the cofounder of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization in Education, a national network of advocates defending youth justice in the digital age. He is senior attorney for civil rights & technology at TechTonic Justice. He has previously worked at a range of civil society organizations, including the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology, the Center on Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Just Tech Fellows at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), where he led a project addressing the impact of police surveillance technologies on the school-to-prison pipeline. An Alabama native, Okoh began his career leading direct service initiatives to support families with low incomes and Black communities in his home state. His work has been featured in Politico, The Nation, Fast Company, The Hill, Stateline, Education Week, Vice, and GovTech, among other outlets. He frequently presents on topics of civil rights and technology to a variety of audiences, including the American Bar Association, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Education Association (NEA), SXSW EDU, and the Mozilla Foundation, among others.

Okoh is a member of the inaugural (2022 – 2024) cohort of the Just Tech Fellowship. As a Just Tech Fellow, Okoh will explore the role of carceral technologies in driving school pushout for Black and brown youth; the relationship between carceral technologies and youth poverty; and the role of carceral technologies in systemic rights violations impacting youth of color in the United States. Using a mixture of legal tools and qualitative research methods, Okoh will foreground the expertise of impacted youth to build abolitionist visions that can repair the harms that flow from the proliferation of carceral technologies in communities of color.