Flynn Coleman is an author, an international human rights attorney, a political scientist, an environmental advocate, and a professor.
Flynn has been named the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen in the Law Faculty as well as a Fellow at the Information Society Law Center at the University of Milan, in the Cesare Beccaria Department of Legal Sciences.
She has been named a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Flynn has also named a Visiting ISP Fellow at Yale University’s Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
She has spoken, written, and taught on war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, truth and reconciliation commissions, emerging technologies, behavioral economics and behavioral science, political reconciliation, the intersection of human and environmental rights, the future of autonomous weaponry and war, post-conflict and transitional justice, artificial intelligence, gender equity, access to justice and education, and the future of truth, democracy, and humanity.
Flynn writes and speaks about what it means to be human, and what it means to be humane.
She is the author of the book, A Human Algorithm, a groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of humanely designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology.
Flynn is a Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State, a Henry Luce Scholar, a Council on Foreign Relations Stephen M. Kellen Member, the recipient of the YFU Distinguished Alum Award, and the inaugural recipient of a Women in Sports award. Flynn is also the honoree of the NCP Visionary Award.
Flynn has worked with the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the UNHCR, the United States Federal Government, and with international companies, universities, and human rights organizations around the world.
She has taught at The New School, Parsons School of Design, and was the inaugural fellow at the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law. Flynn was the founding teacher at King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law on redefining success in the law, and is a faculty member at The School of Life and General Assembly. Flynn is a mentor for the AsiaFoundation, a board advisor for Flowers for the Future, and is also the inaugural advisor of Spring ACT.
Flynn holds a BSFS from Georgetown University, a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has also studied at La Sorbonne, the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, La Universidad de Chile, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal, and Université de Genève.
She has lived in Italy, Cambodia, Senegal, France, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Hong Kong, Fiji, the Netherlands, Chile, and the United States. Flynn currently calls New York and Italy home. She speaks seven languages, and her wanderings have taken her from helping rebuild homes and schools in New Orleans and Fiji, to distributing gifts to children in Haiti and school supplies in Guatemala and Ethiopia, to spending time with primates in Spain, to teaching How to Make a Difference in the English countryside, to playing soccer in Italy, Cambodia, and Chile, to huffing up Mount Kilimanjaro with her dad, to zodiac boating in Alaska with her mom, to riding a little red Vespa all through the rolling hills of Umbria.
