Christelle Tessono

Christelle Tessono (she/her) is Tech Policy Researcher currently pursuing graduate studies at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. She recently completed her two-year fellowship as an inaugural Emerging Scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). She is interested in tackling the relationship between racial inequality and digital technology from a policy lens. As a result, this has led her to work on projects related to political advertising on social media platforms, gig work, facial recognition technology, data governance and AI regulation.

Prior to Princeton, Christelle worked at the House of Commons of Canada, where she supported the legislative work of two Members of Parliament as part of the non-partisan Parliamentary Internship Program (PIP). Additionally, she was a Columnist-Researcher at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as part of the CBC Radio Peter Gzowski summer internship program. And lastly, Christelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from McGill University.

During her free time, she enjoys discovering new restaurants, catching up with the latest musical releases and spending time with loved ones.