#ShutDownSTEM

On June 10, the MSDS program will be joining #ShutDownSTEM. We plan to educate ourselves and discuss actions we can take to help eradicate anti-Black racism in academia and in data science.

Please join us. We encourage you to read the following resources and reflect on how to listen, learn, and use your power and privilege to promote the just application of data science and heal racial inequity wherever you see it.

Anti-Racism Resources

• Video: Ijeoma Oluo at UW School of Public Health (Oct 2019)
• Video: Ijeoma Oluo and Charles Mudede at Town Hall (Oct 2019)
• Video: Robin DiAngelo at Seattle Central Library (July 2018)
• Book: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Podcast: Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi: How to Be Antiracist
• Podcast: Code Switch
• Book: How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Book: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Upcoming Trainings and Workshops

• Antia B.Org (Host of Grace Hopper conference) workshop, 6/11: Candid Conversation About Building an Antiracist Society: Registration link

Racism and Data Science

• Video: Algorithmic Justice: Race, Bias, and Big Data at Brown University (Feb 2019)
• Book: Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble 
• Article: Machine Bias by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner (May 2016)
• Podcast: Using Data to Fight Inequities in Policing by John O’Brien

About the Experiences of African Americans

• Graphic Novel: March (Books 1, 2 & 3) by John Lewis
• Book: Becoming by Michelle Obama 
• Book: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Book: Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Book: James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming
• Book: Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Racism in Education

• https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/episodes-by-topic/#activism
• https://www.academics4blacklives.com
• https://www.particlesforjustice.org/resources
• Podcast: The Problem We All Live With – Part One and Part Two

Kid-friendly Resources

• https://www.embracerace.org/resources/topic/how-kids-learn-about-race (Embrace Race is founded by parents of color to provide resources to parents)
• Video: CNN Sesame Street Town Hall: Standing Up to Racism
• Book or Video: Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, & Jennifer Zivoin
• Book or Video: A Kid’s Book About Racism by Jelani Memory