Imani Finkley

Imani Finkley

she/her

ifinkley [at] uw [dot] edu

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Neutrality Bites: Gender Representation in AI-Generated Animal Stories

Published in ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026

Auditing 23.8K LLM-generated stories about talking animals, we find that apparent gender neutrlity masks a strong masculine default, leaving feminine characters nearly absent. Read more

Recommended citation: Imani Finkley, Yuanxi Li, and Melanie Walsh. 2026. Neutrality Bites: Gender Representation in AI-Generated Animal Stories. In The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’26), June 25–28, 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3812287

A failure to communicate: Declining judicial trust and a new approach to institutional communication

Published in Center for Informed Public Blog, 2026

Public trust in courts can be strengthened when the judiciary communicates more openly, clearly, and proactively with the public Read more

Recommended citation: Joanna Mendy, Jayden Cowley, Imani Finkley, Mads Eggerding, Ali Durran, Danielle Lee Tomson, Michael Grass, Cullen White, Emma Spiro, and Kate Starbird. 2026. A failure to communicate: Declining judicial trust and a new approach to institutional communication. https://www.cip.uw.edu/2026/05/14/judicial-communications-public-trust/