Our humanity deserves to be counted.
COVID Racial Impact Data Alliance
This is not a rapid-response effort. This is an effort to build back better through weaving connections to our common humanity and centering the needs of communities of color for future solutions, accountability and care.
Our power and humanity live in the intersections and our humanity deserves to be counted.
The COVID Racial Impact Data Alliance is an initiative to bring together a network of data scientists, technologists and community leaders to support efforts to collect inclusive data and metrics on how COVID-19 is impacting communities of color across a spectrum of intersections.
The coronavirus global pandemic will impact every level of life; voting access, education, workers rights, disrupted jobs and businesses, gender violence— all of these components will have health and well-being outcomes that will disproportionately impact communities of color for the foreseeable future.
Support for Communities
Are there specific communities which you identify with, represent or specifically wish to work with on inclusive data efforts?
“We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.”
— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Who is behind this?
This effort is led by human rights technologist Sabrina Hersi Issa, the lead organizer of Rights x Tech, a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, technology platforms and power. We seek to explicitly explore intersections and to connect and mobilize community for solutions-building.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
rightsxtech@beboldmedia.com