Sonja Sharp, an LA Times reporter, interviewed Deaf people about how they are creating and sharing new signs for this moment of reckoning and recognition. I cued up the story’s video (below) to the point at which Rorri Burton, a Black American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, shares her perspective: The sign for “your knee on […]
Black Lives Matter
“For Black people, Minneapolis is a metaphor for our world.”
The following is an excerpt from the Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minnesotans, by Yeshimabeit Milner (@YESHICAN). I’m posting it as a way to amplify her voice. Please click through to read the entire essay. If you share it on social platforms, please share her Medium post directly. We at Data […]
Access to data = access to power
Data about your health and that of your community can empower you to make — or demand — changes. When there are gaps in the record or the data don’t exist, participatory data collection empowers people to contribute to the public conversation. Access to data is access to power. On November 17-19, 2017, Data for […]
Break my heart, make me change
Take a deep breath and then look at this data about HIV in the U.S.: I have seen these numbers before, but never laid out so clearly and so beautifully. Thank you, Jeff Guo of the Washington Post, for breaking my heart. Thank you, because I think we all need our hearts broken anew from […]
Health, Technology, and Communities of Color
Serendipity brought me two opportunities this week to present Pew Internet’s data on communities of color and young people, particularly as it relates to health. On Wednesday I was a guest of the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council and on Thursday I spoke at a meeting convened by CommonHealth ACTION. I’ll share some insights I picked […]
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