Kenzo Soares

Kenzo Seto is a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School. He holds a PhD in Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he also served as an adjunct professor of media studies. Additionally, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG – University of Lisbon).

He previously worked as an analyst at Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and, for over ten years, as a parliamentary advisor on issues related to science, technology, and digital policy in municipal and state legislatures, as well as in the Brazilian National Congress.

His writings have appeared in Big Data & Society, Globalizations, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation (WOLG) and the International Journal of Political Economy of Information, Communication, and Culture (EPTIC), among others.

His research focuses on the regulation of artificial intelligence in Latin America, exploring how civil society, tech workers, and governments negotiate issues of digital sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and platform economies. He draws on perspectives from the Global South to analyze the intersection of technological dependence, political economy of communication, and sociotechnical imaginaries in AI governance.