Communications Manager for Artificial Intelligence and Global Programs Support
Alainna Liloia joined the Provost’s Office in November 2025 as Communications Manager for Artificial Intelligence and Global Programs Support. She previously served as AI Communications Manager for Duke Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education, where her role was focused on strategic communications and storytelling for the university’s AI initiatives and research and the Provost’s AI at Duke initiative. She received Duke University’s 2024 Emerging Communicator Award.
Alainna holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Arizona and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Wake Forest University. Alainna’s scholarship and other writing spans emerging technologies, human rights, women’s issues in the Arab world, and Middle East politics and has been featured in a variety of publications, including Oxford University Press, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS), Business Insider, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Tech Policy Press and The Conversation. Alainna’s prior professional and academic experience includes teaching Middle East and South Asia Studies as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University and communications experience in the nonprofit and edtech sectors.