Surveillance States: How AI Is Reshaping Borders, Refugee Lives, and Human Rights

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Lydia Emmanouilidou, a 2022 Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellow, will visit Spelman College on April 16-17, 2025, to share her reporting on how artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies are transforming border management and impacting the lives of refugees. She will visit classes and speak with the student news service.

Drawing on her reporting from refugee camps in Greece and borders in Europe and the U.S., Emmanouilidou will reveal how cutting-edge technologies—from facial recognition to phone extraction—are increasingly employed to "manage" vulnerable populations and the human rights implications of these practices. 

Emmanouilidou is a freelance journalist and audio producer based in Athens, Greece, and Boston.