Featuring Emily Kennedy, President/Co-Founder, Marinus Analytics
Emily Kennedy is a social entrepreneur who has made a significant social impact through technology. As President and Co-Founder of Marinus Analytics, Emily is passionate about bringing AI and technology to bear on the most pressing social problems, like human trafficking. She co-founded Marinus Analytics to create AI-for-good solutions to human trafficking and other vulnerabilities.
Marinus Analytics has grown rapidly since its 2014 founding. A spinoff from The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the company has grown to a team of 12, serving the public and private sectors across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Emily has led Marinus Analytics’ national and international social impact, product deployment, and partnerships expansion
As a woman-owned and lead organization, Marinus Analytics is dedicated to creating AI solutions that equip individuals on the frontlines. Marinus Analytics team has become internationally-recognized technology pioneers whose mission is to protect the vulnerable and end systemic exploitation. They deploy SaaS applications in the public sector to disrupt human trafficking, child abuse, and cyber fraud. Marinus offers information discovery solutions to get actionable insights out of big data for law enforcement, social workers, and cyber fraud investigators that enable data-driven, people-centric responses in the modern age. Their flagship tool, Traffic Jam, revolutionizes the way detectives are able to stop and prevent human trafficking, recover victims, and dismantle organized criminal networks, by deploying graph analytics to detect organized crime and purpose-driven algorithms to identify vulnerability indicators, informing frontline professionals to hidden exploitation.
Marinus Analytics has expanded its mission into new areas, including building tailored tools to help social workers, enriching outcome analysis, and enhancing motivational interviewing in the field. They also empower government agencies that enforce cybercrime regulations with the information they need to identify the largest streams of cyber fraud and online scams. These new areas further their strong mission of protecting the vulnerable and ending systemic exploitation across the globe.
For her work in these areas of technology and advocacy, Emily was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, one of Entrepreneur's Most Powerful Women, Toyota Mother of Invention, and is a keynote speaker and podcaster. As host of the “The Empower Podcast,” she champions women entrepreneurs and creates meaningful dialogue around issues important to women. She also has been featured at the United Nations, Fast Company, NBC News, CBS News, Vice, Mashable, Teen Vogue, and Scientific American. Her projects have generously received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Bank of New York Mellon, and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Through Marinus Analytics, Emily has demonstrated her commitment to social impact through technology and entrepreneurship. And through her leadership, she has shown how women leaders can make a tremendous impact on the cause of justice.