Social Good

The Social Good committee is focused on data done right. We care deeply about modern issues the rapid pace of technology comes with and how to tackle them.

(01) — Our work

What we do

We provide pro-bono support for non-profit organizations, developing advanced analytical insights to recognize uplifting initiatives around the globe.

By using ‘tech for social good’, our diverse team of talented individuals prides itself on the impact it makes working on meaningful projects across the societal, healthcare, and environmental domains.

We focus our efforts not only on providing effective solutions to real-world issues, but also on addressing ethical challenges within the tech landscape — a need made increasingly evident by the rapid advancement of technology and the prevalence of data in today’s world. In our committee, we strive to instill a passion for ethical commitment within our members as they prepare to pursue their professional endeavors.

Committee Lead: Manav Kumar

Social Good committee members cheering as they lift one member up, outside a campus building at UC Berkeley — Fig. 01 — Spring 2026 Social Good Committee Members

(02) — Portfolio

Projects

A rotating look at what this committee has shipped. Click “See more” for the full story.

Spring 2026

National Geographic

Automated deep-sea species clustering with detection, tracking, and contrastive learning for rapid annotation.

Fall 2025

UNICEF

Persona-aware RAG chatbot with vector search for accessible UNICEF policy research across diverse audiences.

Spring 2026

World Wildlife Fund

LLM-powered web intelligence platform for real-time aquaculture news analysis using Microsoft Fabric and Streamlit.

Fall 2024

Stanford Medicine

AI-driven TEMPOS framework for automated, evidence-based suicide-reporting evaluation using LLMs and RAG.

Spring 2025

Mongabay

Multilingual article translation and summarization tool for rapid, accessible journalism insights.

Fall 2025

Edtrust

RAG-based AWS chatbot orchestrating API-driven answers and SQL queries via Lambda functions.

(03) — Committee life

How we spend our time

Beyond the client work, this is what a semester in the committee looks like.

Committee members seated in a wide circle of desk chairs in a classroom, talking with a presentation on the screen behind them

Discussions on ethical issues

Members meet to talk through the ethical and political questions behind the data they work with, and to practice making a case they can defend.

The Social Good committee gathered for a group photo outside a campus building in the evening

Skill workshops

Hands-on sessions on the skills the committee leans on most — including decking, where members build and critique the slides that carry a project's findings.

Two committee members holding up sheets of paper covered in quick sketches during a drawing game in class

Bonding games

Games and socials that give the committee a reason to spend time together away from the work itself.

Interested?

Join Social Good this semester.

We recruit in the first two weeks of Fall and Spring semester. Check the Join page for dates, timelines, and how to apply.

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