RxT Report Back: Justice, Data & Safety in a Pandemic
Rights x Tech recently hosted virtual session Justice, Data & Safety in a Pandemic with movement technology leaders, Yeshimabeit Milner from Data 4 Black Lives, Nasma Ahmed from Digital Justice Lab and Sabrina Hersi Issa. We’re glad many of you were able to participate and contribute meaningfully throughout the event — your engagement truly made the event a success and we hope the session sparked new discussions.
If you weren’t able to attend the event, you can find a recording of the session and a few other resources below. Rights x Tech committed to continuous improvement, to help us improve our future events and programming, please consider taking this short survey.
RxT on Deck: Resisting Digital Voter Suppression
Our last event reached capacity and had a large waitlist within a few days, so sign up now for our upcoming event Building Power and Resisting Voter Suppression on May 13th, 1p EDT. You can RSVP here.
This Zoom event will feature LaTosha Brown from Black Voters Matter and Shireen Mitchell from Stop Online Violence Against Women and Sabrina Hersi Issa. We encourage you to submit your questions for the speakers or the group in advance by clicking here!
RxT Report Back: Justice, Data & Safety in a Pandemic
“Our mission is to make data tools for social change and not as a weapon of political oppression.” — Yeshimabeit Milner, Data 4 Black Lives
Webinar content & other resources
- Data 4 Black Lives
- Digital Justice Lab
- COVID Racial Data Impact Alliance
- LockBox (resource shared by Nasma Ahmed): More info
- Call for a public data trust from Data 4 Black Lives
