Sylvester Johnson

Sylvester A. Johnson is the founding CEO of the Corporation for Public Interest Technology, a public benefit company whose mission is to make technology accountable to public interest, human communities, and human-centered value-creation for private industry. Sylvester held the 2024 Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, focusing on policy, regulation, and new-and-emerging technologies. He believes comprehensive approaches to socio-technical innovation are essential to ensuring a future for human prosperity. 

Sylvester is also Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University. He formerly served as Associate Vice Provost for Public Interest Technology at Virginia Tech, where he was the founding director of the Center for Humanities. Johnson has authored award-winning books and articles spanning humanities, national security, and technology.