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Empowering Cambridge youth through data activism: Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer. mitsha.re/lmzV50KRoZF

The winning projects selected for the MIT Prize for Open Data represent a wide variety of research topics. From a Data Activism curriculum for high schoolers…(1/5) news.mit.edu/2022/empowerin…

The MIT Libraries and MIT Science recently awarded the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data; the winners and honorable mentions included several Media Lab students and alumni. Congratulations to all of the honorees! news.mit.edu/2022/celebrati…

Kicking off the Data Activism Research Symposium this morning MIT Media Lab. Master's student Raechel Walker and a team of high school and undergraduate researchers partnered with community orgs to use data science to address systemic injustice

Interesting master's thesis "Liberatory Computing Framework: Empowering High School Students to Mitigate Systemic Oppression through Data Activism" by Raechel Walker dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/…

Five Media Lab students have received 2023 MIT Presidential Fellowship awards! Congrats to Ila Kumar (Affective Computing), Kimaya Lecamwasam (Opera of the Future), Cecilé Sadler (Lifelong Kindergarten), Aastha Shah (Conformable Decoders), + Raechel Walker (PersonalRobots) media.mit.edu/posts/five-med…

"I felt like my PhD kind of scratched the surface of what I could have done or could potentially do... I wanted to explore healthcare robotics even more and more deeply.” - Dr. Angelique Taylor modernfigurespodcast.com

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Weekend read: Raechel Walker building new pathways for "data science to confront and mitigate systemic oppression" with African American students. media.mit.edu/publications/u…

I am speaking at RESPECT'24. Please checkout the details of my talk at: whova.com/xems/apis/open…

This talk was a stunner! The framework, research questions, and execution of this work by Raechel Walker on Alleviating the Danger Of A Single Story Through Liberatory Computing Education, presented at RESPECT BPC…so good. Check out the Day of AI lessons! #respect2024

Daniella DiPaola and Raechel Walker's interview with Dr. Casey Fiesler is no longer on here exploring how she uses social media to raise public awareness of tech ethics, AI legislation, and the impact of tech on marginalized communities is out now! doi.org/10.38105/spr.g…

What are you doing Tuesday at 12EST? I'm giving a talk about how I use reverse engineering (aka, hacking into software) to make connections between social structures and data/code structures. (useful for media studies, STS, crit data studies) Abstract ⬇️ 1/

Congratulations to Media Lab PhD student Raechel Walker on being selected as a recipient of an ACM FAccT 2024 scholarship, which will support her PhD research in data activism. media.mit.edu/posts/raechel-…