Anika Dugal is a first-year A.B. Duke Scholar from Old Bridge, New Jersey. She plans on pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Public Policy. Anika’s passions lie in tech policy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, gender justice, and social entrepreneurship. She is involved with grassroots organizing for equitable tech policy and is dedicated to promoting gender equity within artificial intelligence. At Duke, Anika serves on the POLIS Student Committee and is a student advisor at the Franklin Center for Human Rights as well as the Office of University Scholars and Fellows. She also competes in cyber policy competitions with Duke Cyber, serves on the Executive Board of Duke Women in National Security, and is a DTech Scholar. Anika’s work has been recognized by numerous organizations, including being named a Coca-Cola Scholar, U.S. Senate Youth Delegate, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award recipient, and Prudential Emerging Visionary.