Esosa Osa

Biography

Esosa Osa is Founder and CEO of Onyx Impact, an organization created to better understand and combat disinformation targeting Black communities and increase Black civic engagement. Esosa was previously Deputy Executive Director of Fair Fight Action, a voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams, where she led pro-democracy reform efforts with a focus on combatting disinformation and voting policy reform while overseeing the research, communications, and political teams. This follows her work as Senior Advisor to Abrams' 2022 gubernatorial campaign and as the Campaign Manager and Chief of Staff for a 2018 U.S. Congressional election.

Sessions

1. Designing AI for Truth and Trust

   Wed, Nov 4, 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT

   Track Artificial Intelligence

   AiSHA is an AI chatbot built to reflect Black culture and lived experience. Here, Esosa Osa opens up the build: the training data decisions, the infrastructure tradeoffs, what broke between concept and shipped product, and what she would do differently. The back half is yours. Bring questions about the stack, the model, and the real cost of building culturally informed tech. Made for builders and technologists.

2. Live Demo: Meet AiSHA, the AI Trained on Culture

   Tue, Nov 3, 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM CT

   Track Artificial Intelligence

   Most AI models were not trained with the Black community in mind. Esosa Osa, Founder and CEO of Onyx Impact, takes the Main Stage for the first public look at AiSHA, an AI chatbot trained to reflect the truth, culture, and lived experience of Black America. Osa spent years fighting disinformation aimed at our communities. Now she is building the alternative. See what changes when the technology is designed with us at the center.