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Friday, June 15 • 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Our Data Bodies Matter!

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Our data is our stories. When our data is manipulated, distorted, stolen, or misused, our communities are stifled, and our ability to prosper decreases.

Join our international team of researchers and organizers for a crucial discussion of how our communities are facing data-based discrimination—and the ways we can collectively begin to build digital justice.

Presenters
avatar for Tawana Petty (she/her)

Tawana Petty (she/her)

Director, Data Justice Program, Detroit Community Technology Project
Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty is a mother, author, poet and social justice organizer. She serves as Data Justice director for the Detroit Community Technology Project and co-leads Our Data Bodies. She is an antiracism facilitator with Detroit Equity Action Lab and a Digital Civil Society... Read More →
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Virginia Eubanks

Our Data Bodies Project/New America
A writer, teacher and welfare rights organizer from Troy, NY.
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Seeta Peña Gangadharan

Our Data Bodies Project/London School of Economics and Political Science
A mother, activist researcher, and social justice optimist born in New Jersey and working in London.
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Tamika Lewis

Our Data Bodies Project/Center for Community Transitions, Inc.
An organizer and artist whose primary focus is advancing Queer People of Color and marginalized communities.
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Mariella Saba

Our Data Bodies Project/Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
practices popular education, cultural work, and healing arts, to collectively, creatively, and healthily uproot the genocidal set-ups of our global dis-ease.


Friday June 15, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry C