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Holly Alpine
Affiliate, Ethics In Society
BioHolly Alpine is an environmental leader with more than a decade of experience mobilizing employees and shaping climate advocacy inside the tech sector. She co-founded the Enabled Emissions Campaign, which holds Big Tech companies accountable for using advanced technologies to help fossil fuel companies extract oil and gas more cheaply and efficiently. Before launching this advocacy campaign, Holly co-founded and scaled Microsoft’s global employee sustainability network to 10,000+ members. She also founded the company’s Community Environmental Sustainability program, which established corporate policy for investing in sustainability projects in datacenter communities worldwide. Holly played a central role in strengthening Microsoft’s climate commitments by creating direct channels between employees and senior leadership and elevating climate advocacy as a shared responsibility across the company. She also has served on the boards of American Forests and Zero Waste Washington, and is an accomplished plant-based mountain athlete.
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Amanda Bensel
Practitioner Programs Manager, Ethics In Society
Staff, Ethics In SocietyBioAmanda works as Practitioner Programs Manager at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society where she helps manage courses exploring ethical questions in the technology sector for professionals from across the world. Formerly, she ran leadership development programs for an INGO called the Asia Foundation, advancing grassroots leaders from across Asia through tailored study tours and reflective leadership frameworks. Her professional background spans international development, environmental policy, youth instruction, urban planning and the creative arts. Amanda lived and worked in Nepal for four years, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later to lead graduate student field research and research social enterprises. She is a volunteer judge for UC Berkeley's Annual Big Ideas contest, a student innovation competition; is part of the Skyline Garden Alliance, a native plant restoration group in the east bay hills; sits at the Oakland Photo Workshop, a community run galley for the East Bay Photographers Collective; and pursues independent documentary photography and film projects. Every summer she teaches visual art at a youth summer camp for kids in the Sierra Nevadas. She holds a BA in Architecture with a minor in City Planning from the University of California Berkeley, a MA in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and a masterclass certificate for “Visual Storytelling in New Media” from the International Center of Photography. She's an avid cyclist, hiker, artist and vipassana mediator.
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Carlos Centeno Lairet
Affiliate, Ethics In Society
BioCarlos is a 2026 Ethics & Tech Practitioner Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. He co-founded SOMOS Civic Lab. At the lab, the team is researching and designing tools to democratize generative AI in Global Majority countries. Somos is part of the UNDP AI Trust & Safety Programme, and it's supported by the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability program. As MIT Emerging Talent Director, he equips learners from migrant and refugee communities with computer science skills. He co-founded and directed MIT's Governance Innovation Initiative, as Associate Director of Innovation; co-designed and launched MIT's first Governance Innovation Research Fellowship, and hosted MIT's "Power to the Who" governance innovation podcast. He was previously at the UN for 10 years, where he worked in community and government preparedness to natural disasters based in Latin America, Asia and Africa. His AI (NLP) prototype ALIA was a Google launchpad finalist in Munich (2018). He has supported investigative journalism projects at Pro Publica on disappearances and detentions by the US federal government.
