Garance Burke

As a CASBS practitioner fellow, Garance Burke will work on investigations tied to artificial intelligence, accountability and civil rights. Burke is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist at The Associated Press, where she leads high-impact projects at the intersection of technology and society. Her investigations about the global surveillance industry were part of a package that won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and her all-format journalism over the years has spurred significant real-world change, including congressional hearings, federal civil rights investigations and a cabinet-level resignation. An expert and advisor on AI ethics, she also has written standards for how journalists cover these technologies and use them appropriately in the newsroom. Based in San Francisco, she began her career in Mexico City, at El Financiero and The Washington Post. She earned dual masters degrees in public policy and documentary film from the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Journalism, where she has taught as a lecturer in data journalism. Burke was an inaugural joint fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence-John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships in 2020. Burke’s work also has been honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting and received a National News & Documentary Emmy Award for a FRONTLINE PBS documentary film collaboration featuring her reporting on family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border.