Lexi Rohrer

Lexi designs and develops technology that creates positive social impact. She is joining MIP to work on technology policy at the intersection of AI governance and international development, translating between technologists, citizens, and policymakers at institutions like the UN or World Bank.

For six years, Lexi has worked internationally as a human centered designer. As a Fulbright fellow in Bangkok, Lexi co-designed Smart City tech with Thai locals, creating solutions like a LINE bot that translates complex energy policy into plain language for citizens. Prior to her Fulbright, Lexi was the product design lead for onboarding in QuickBooks, where she created AI-driven flows that increased user setup rates by 137%.

On the side, Lexi works as the communications director for Basilica Bio, an environmental justice nonprofit running community-based participatory research. In partnership with the City of Seattle, Lexi co-authored Navigating Food Systems in King County, 3,000+ physical and digital copies of which have been distributed to women's shelters and food banks.

Throughout these experiences, Lexi has become drawn to questions of incentive design and institutional trust that arise wherever powerful technology meets the people it's meant to serve. She's currently focused on one question: Why do systems built to help people so often fail them in practice? At Stanford, Lexi's building the cybersecurity and governance foundations to address that question through policy.