Sarah Stephens
Legal technologist and academic leading work on technology-driven legal empowerment; founder of the Dada Wakili WhatsApp legal assistant in Tanzania and head of innovation at the Sussex Centre for Law and Technology.
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Mar 8, 2026 • 42min
How AI Could Really Change Things
Dr. Sarah Stephens, a legal technologist who built Dada Wakili and leads innovation at Sussex Centre for Law and Technology, discusses creating an AI WhatsApp assistant to help women navigate Tanzania’s plural legal systems. She talks about moving from corporate law to grassroots justice, design challenges like languages and feature phones, AI’s practical limits in legal triage, and plans to scale via USSD/SMS and an AI law lab.
