Garance Burke is a global investigative journalist with The Associated Press leading a team examining the impacts of artificial intelligence technologies on our communities. Her public interest journalism has prompted federal investigations, cabinet-level resignations and congressional hearings. Burke’s stories on the treatment of migrant children on the US-Mexico border were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 and the subject of an Emmy-winning documentary film partnership between AP and FRONTLINE PBS.

Burke was an inaugural 2020 John S. Knight Journalism-Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Fellow at Stanford University, where she researched the role algorithms play in government decision-making. That year she co-founded an open-source project probing the use of surveillance and predictive tools amid the pandemic that won the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sunshine Award. Based in San Francisco, Burke previously served as AP’s Western data editor, collaborating with colleagues to shape accountability reporting. Her work has received accolades including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, SPJ's Sigma Delta Chi national investigative reporting award and a national Edward R. Murrow award.

Burke began her career at the Mexican financial daily El Financiero, then worked as a staff reporter for The Washington Post in Mexico City. She earned dual master's degrees from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught basic data journalism.

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