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About Mala

Currently doing

  • Director of Program Management, AI Safety @ ML Commons
  • Supporting NYU's Center for Health Data Science
  • Starting a new fellowship with Open Future. More info coming soon.
  • Advising the ITU's OSEE program
  • Making videos about tech and social good. Watch here on YouTube
  • Eagerly waiting the publication of my second novel - What it Meant to Survive in October 2024

Previously did

I was previously a Senior Advisor at the World Health Organization, where I supported the Open Source Programme Office that I helped launch while I was the Director of Tech for Social Good on the GitHub Social Impact team. Previous to joining GitHub in April 2019, I worked in tech for international development (ICT4D) as a UX researcher and designer, mostly for other United Nations agencies, like UNICEF and WFP.

If you're curious about my work, you can read more on my website. Please reach out at malakumarconsulting [at] gmail [dot] com or on Linkedin.

Popular repositories

  1. merl-tech-dc-2018 merl-tech-dc-2018 Public

    Forked from MERLCenter/2018-Archive

    An open-source & public library of code, tools, and guides about using technology for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, & Learning (MERL)

    Jupyter Notebook 2 1

  2. malakumar85 malakumar85 Public

    Hello World

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  3. merge-conflicts merge-conflicts Public

    HTML 1

  4. hello-github-actions hello-github-actions Public

  5. human-essentials human-essentials Public

    Forked from rubyforgood/human-essentials

    Human Essentials is an inventory management system for essentials banks, to aid them in distributing items to their partners, tracking their inventory, and providing statistics about their inventor…

    Ruby

  6. TypeChat TypeChat Public

    Forked from microsoft/TypeChat

    TypeChat is a library that makes it easy to build natural language interfaces using types.

    TypeScript