Paola Ricaurte is a professor in the department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She co-founded Tierra Común, a network of academics, practitioners, and activists focused on decolonizing data.

Ricaurte serves on several expert committees, including the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), the Global Index on Responsible AI, the expert group for the Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the AI Ethics Experts Without Borders network, and the Women for Ethical AI (W4EAI) platform. She is also a member of the A+ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and leads the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist AI Research Network.

Ricaurte was an event speaker at the Dialogue.