Yasodara Córdova
Investment Committee

Yasodara, or Yaso, is a technologist with 18+ years of experience working at the intersection of research, public policy, and product management, focusing on privacy, security, and ethics in A.I. Currently, she is the head of Privacy Research at a Brazilian unicorn, unico IDtech.

She is a former Mason fellow with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University. Before the Ash Center fellowship, she assisted countries in integrating technology into their governance infrastructure as an agile/citizen engagement fellow at the World Bank's governance sector. Her work at the institution went from helping governments develop infrastructure for participatory platforms to stemming corruption among civil servants using emerging tools. She is a former Senior Fellow of the Digital Kennedy School and a former fellow and affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Yaso was part of the Ciudadania Inteligente's Director's board and is the former CEO of the "Serenata de Amor Operation," an anti-corruption A.I. platform that uses machine learning and open data to facilitate social control money spent by representatives in Brazil. Before being selected as a Fellow of the Berkman Klein Center in 2016, Yasodara worked as a Web Specialist at the World Wide Web Consortium, building standards for the web and leading the Data on the Web Working Group. 

In her early life, she worked with citizen journalism and was twice awarded the most prominent Brazilian prize in Journalism and Human Rights, the Vladimir Herzog Award. She is the first female Hackerspace founder in Brazil and was part of the Open Knowledge Foundation advisory board from its outset in Brazil until 2018.

Yaso holds a Master's in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, an MBA from FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas, and a BA in Design from Universidade de Brasília.