Alli Finn

Alli Finn is an experienced organizer, policy advocate, and movement researcher rooted in NYC, focused on AI, data centers, and state and corporate surveillance. Alli leads the AI Now Institute's partnerships work, equipping communities, organizers, and policymakers to challenge the negative impacts of AI infrastructure and systems on our work, health, rights, and daily lives. Alli also helps steward a nationwide network of local and state groups resisting data center expansion. 


Alli came to tech justice work through a decade of fighting for immigrant and worker rights, through deportation defense, frontline casework, and national advocacy. They led research and organizing against ICE surveillance with the Immigrant Defense Project and Surveillance Resistance Lab, campaigned against corporate tech power with Kairos, and managed the casework department at a migrant domestic workers’ center in Lebanon. Alli holds an M.A. in Sociology from the American University of Beirut and is currently a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest.

Courses and Content

Sundance Institute's Story Forum: Online Event Registration

Join us from anywhere on January 29–30 for 15+ immersive online sessions. Explore the cutting edge of independent filmmaking through deep dives into virtual production, documentary ethics, and sustainable independent workflows.