On Racialized Tech Organizations and Complaint: A Goodbye to Google

Alex Hanna
6 min readFeb 2, 2022
White plaster, interspersed with red rusty blotches, peeling off an exterior wall.
(Photo credit: Thomas Kinto)

Today (Wednesday, February 2, 2022) is my last day at Google. It’s been a year and two months after my former manager Timnit Gebru was fired, and nearly a year after my next manager Meg Mitchell was given the same treatment. I’m following Timnit and joining her at the Distributed AI Research Institute as Director of Research, effective tomorrow.

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Alex Hanna

Sociology and technology. Arab-American trans lady. Roller derby athlete/announcer. She/her/هي