Dr. Ruth Bankey is on the Board of Directors of the Inclusive Innovation Hub (I2Hub), which creates & supports a community of transformation in inclusive innovation practice and research by increasing access, co-creating new knowledge, building networks & collaborating to rethink what inclusivity means in & for innovation. As a part of the I2Hub she is working on developing, with other members, an “inclusive innovation prototype for systems change” as a part of the 2024 u-lab 2x cohort, U-school for transformation, Presencing Institute, MIT. She is a collaborator on SSHRC Partnership Development Grant entitled “Enabling Systems Transitions towards Inclusive Innovation”, for which the I2Hub plays a leadership role and for which she is specifically concerned to address the question of What are leading practices in inclusiveness in the development of Artificial Intelligence Technologies? Her focus on inclusive innovation also extends to other areas of her work for example, as a collaborator on “Meaningfully Engaging the Public in Artificial Intelligence a SSHRC Insights Grant”. Her role as the Chair of the Board of Directors for both the Capacity Building Institute of Canada (CBI) and Sustainable Capacity Solutions, both of which are environmental NGOs whose vision is to see the environmental non-profit sector equipped with the crucial tools and resources needed to overcome capacity constraints and foster community resilience. Her role as a head judge for the inaugural National Canada Wide Science Fair (CWSF) Judging Team (approx.. 20-person team) and the Regeneron ISEF Fair judging panel to select AI ( and other) projects for team Canada. And her work for one of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Program areas in its Business Intelligence, Research & Analytics Division (BIRAD).