NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

Data, Activism, and Intersectionality: A Panel

November 19, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Please join us for "Data, Activism, and Intersectionality," a panel that will feature: Khadijah Abdurahman (We Be Imagining podcast), Faithe Day (Purdue University), Sureshi M. Jayawardene (San Diego State University) and Angel David Nieves (Northeastern University). Each panelist will speak about their research and we will then have time for discussion and questions among the panelists and attendees.
  

This is a remote event and registration is required. RSVP here. 

See the event page for more details, including the topics that each panelist will discuss.

The panel will be introduced and contextualized by Angel David Nieves, Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities; Director of Public Humanities, Northeastern University. We will then have presentations from each of the panelists, followed by questions and discussion.

J. Khadijah Abdurahman (she/her) is a child welfare system abolitionist and an independent researcher whose focus is predictive analytics in the child welfare system. She is the co-founder of Word2RI, an oral history archive of racial justice and gentrification on Roosevelt Island, Director of We Be Imagining, a nascent public technology project currently curating programming examining race and technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations in collaboration with Columbia University’s INCITE Center and The American Assembly’s Democracy and Trust Program. She is a visiting researcher and lecturer at Cornell Tech in the Milstein Program.

Faithe Day (she/her) is a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation within the Libraries and School of Information Studies and the African American Studies Department at Purdue University. Dr. Day develops curriculum, data collection, and curation projects in collaboration with other scholars to identify critical frameworks and best practices to ensure an ethical and justice-centered approach to data curation, with a focus on Black and LGBTQIA+ Community Based Data and Discourse. Her most recent digital humanities project is the Black Living Data Booklet, a manual and manifesto on the ethical engagement of data on and for Black communities.

Sureshi M. Jayawardene, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University. As a scholar of the African diaspora, her research raises questions about Black geographies, Africanity, and self-definition among diasporic African communities in South Asia whose ancestors were brought to the region through the Indian Ocean slave trade. Her research interests in educational technology and digital humanities have also driven her work into the shaping of a distinct Africana DH subfield and pedagogical innovation in Africana classrooms using DH. She is affiliated with the Digital Humanities Center and Department of Women’s Studies at SDSU.

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