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If you are interested in learning more about these issues, check out the work of some of the following individuals who have dedicaded their lives to understanding and working on fighting racism either using data or within in the field of data science.

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Yeshimabeit Milner

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Yeshimabeit Milner is a co-founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. Starting as a high school student in Miami FL, Milner began organizing and campaigning against the school-to-prison pipeline via Power U Center for Social Change, which sparked her passion and drive for creating and sustaining large-scaled social change. On top of running Data for Black Lives, she leads in other notable organizations such as Color of Change and OrganizeFor.

Read more about her work here: http://d4bl.org/about.html

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David Blackwell

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David Blackwell (1919-2010) was an American statistician that made major contributions to the fields of probability, information thoery, game theory, and Bayesian statistics. He was the first African American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Read his biography: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/blackwell-david-harold-1919-2010/

Read about his notable theory of duels: http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~sjg/ncctm/activities/blackwell.htm#:~:text=While%20working%20at%20Rand%2C%20Blackwell,each%20having%20a%20single%20bullet.&text=While%20at%20Berkeley%2C%20Blackwell%20served,Department%20from%201956%20to%201961.

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Talithia Williams

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Dr. Talithia Williams is a statistician and mathematician that specializes in demystifying spatial and temporal data provided from the WHO. She is the first Black woman to achieve tenure at Harvey Mudd College. Her current research is centered around building a cataract model to predict cataract surgical rates in Africa.

Visit her personal website here: https://www.talithiawilliams.com/

Watch Dr. Williams’ TED Talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/talithia_williams_own_your_body_s_data

Read her book about women in STEM here: https://www.talithiawilliams.com/book

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Joy Buolamwini

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Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist, poet, and digital activist leading the movement to make artificial intelligence ethical and inclusive. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League, which uses art and research to expose bias in algorithms, while simultaneously fighting for changes in policy and industry.

Visit her website here: https://www.poetofcode.com

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Samuel Sinyangwe

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Samuel Sinyangwe is a data scientist, policy analyst, and racial justice activist. He is a co-founder of We The Protestors, a group of digital tools focused on data in the fight for black lives, including: Mapping Police Violence, a database of police killings in the United States, and Campaign Zero, a policy platform working to end police violence.

Check out Mapping Police Violence here: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org

Check out Campaign Zero here: https://www.joincampaignzero.org

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Rashida Richardson

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Rashida Richardson is the Director of Policy Research at the AI Now Institute, which focuses research examining the social implications of aritificial intelligence. She previously worked at the American Civil Liberties Union of New York, where she led the work on privacy, technology, and surveillance.

Check out the AI Now Institute here: https://ainowinstitute.org

Read one of her articles here: https://medium.com/doteveryone/can-technology-be-used-to-undo-the-wrongs-of-the-past-ada016186a54

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