D4BL III: Data for Organizing & the Public Interest

Data 4 Black Lives Catalog

Catalog of datasets related underserved communities. An intermediate between community organizers and data scientists.

Building in a Crisis

From my desk, as the Founder of a movement that has found its purpose during the storm and its focus in the whirlwind, we are not celebrating the end of one crisis and the beginning of another manufactured one, but our resilience and persistence. And we are strapping in for the long haul.

Workshops

To be announced.

Food, Land & Justice

It is estimated that twenty-five percent of Black people live under food apartheid. Black people living under food apartheid are 80% more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. They are four times more likely to suffer from kidney failure and other health issues that result from obesity.

Funding Data Activism

Home is where we ground ourselves, rest, and nourish ourselves as individuals and within communities. Home fosters our earliest creativity and allows us to feel secure. In cities like Boston, Los Angeles, and New York City, Black people make up more than 55% of the homeless population.

AI for Liberation Panel

Supercomputers merging governments and consolidating power. AGI that can think and act as humans do. For us, the battle for the soul of AI isn't whether it will become human but how it will be used to justify who is human and who is not

Welcome & Keynote

Water, Public Investment & Power

By 2100, sea-level rise will lead to the displacement of up to 13 million people in the United States. In Miami alone, over 1 million people will be displaced. This process is already evident in Black communities on higher ground, such as Little Haiti and Liberty City.

A New Education Is Possible

Seventy years after Brown vs Board of Education, schools in America remain separate and unequal. School districts predominantly serving students of color receive $23 billion less in funding than majority-white districts.

Reparations AI: Future of Work

Two hundred and thirty years ago, the invention of the cotton engine, or ‘cotton gin,’ revolutionized the US economy. By automating an essential part of growing cotton, the demand for cotton grew, as did the demand for labor.

Our Bodies Keep Score

Each year, more African American women die of heart disease than breast cancer, lung cancer, and strokes combined. Eighty percent of Black women will suffer from uterine fibroids before the age of 50, and Black women in the U.S. are three to five times more likely to experience a pregnancy-relate...

No More Data Weapons

The protests to the murder of Mike Brown were met with army tanks, SWAT teams, and assault rifles. When the world joined in collective grief and action after the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, what stung more than pepper spray in our eyes was the erosion of our constitutional rights by law enforcement using high-powered surveillance technologies.

Reparations AI: Housing

Home is where we ground ourselves, rest, and nourish ourselves as individuals and within communities. Home fosters our earliest creativity and allows us to feel secure. In cities like Boston, Los Angeles, and New York City, Black people make up more than 55% of the homeless population.