Tawana Petty Explained

Tawana Petty
Birth Place:Detroit, MI
Known For:Author, Poet, Social Justice Organizer, Youth Advocate
Website:https://tawanapetty.org/

Tawana Petty is an American author, poet, social justice organizer, mother and youth advocate who works to counter systemic racism. Petty formerly served as Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Algorithmic Justice League[1] [2] representing AJL[3] in national and international processes shaping AI governance.

She has also served as the National Organizing Director for Data for Black Lives,[4] and as the Data Justice Director for the Detroit Community Technology Project. . Petty is a 2023-2025 Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council, an alumni practitioner fellow of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS),[5] an alumni fellow of the Detroit Equity Action Lab, convening member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, and founder and Executive Director of Petty Propolis, a Black women-led artist incubator focused on cultivating visionary resistance through poetry, literacy and literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and community-centered initiatives.[6] [7]

In light of police brutality against black individuals, Petty and other researchers like Deborah Raji and Ruha Benjamin are working towards putting an end to the use of surveillance technologies like facial recognition in policing. The failure of these technologies to correctly identify darker-skinned individuals raises the concern that these algorithms are biased against Black individuals.[8] [9]

Notable work

Petty has been involved in numerous efforts to center racial equity in data science.

Alongside the Detroit Community Technology Project, Petty has been outspoken against Detroit's "Project Green Light," an attempt to use video footage gathered by private businesses to surveil Detroit residents using facial recognition.[10] [11] She was a member of the curatorial team for DEPTH, an exhibition at Science Gallery Detroit.[12]

As one of the contributors to Our Data Bodies,[13] Petty has focused on working with community organizations across the US to push back against data collection efforts that harm minoritized people.[14] The project "combines community-based organizing, capacity-building, and rigorous academic research."[15] The group has published several interim reports. First, "From Paranoia to Power" in 2016,[16] and then "Reclaiming our data" in 2018.

Petty uses her poetry as a mode of resistance. She uses the name Honeycomb in conjunction with this work, and her first book of poetry was entitled Introducing... Honeycomb.[17] Her second book of poetry, Coming Out My Box, focuses on her lived experience as a Black woman from Detroit.[18] She has a one-woman show by the same name.[19] In addition to her personal poetry work, Petty believes in helping young people find their poetic voice.[20] One workshop she teaches is entitled “Poetry As Visionary Resistance."[21] The organization she leads for this work is called Petty Propolis,[6] which also offers anti-racism training, organizes a yearly arts festival, and has led to the book Petty Propolis Reader.[21] [22]

Awards

References

  1. Web site: A.I. More Racist Than I? The Takeaway . 2023-08-15 . WNYC Studios . en.
  2. Web site: Mission, Team and Story - The Algorithmic Justice League . 2023-03-06 . www.ajl.org.
  3. Web site: Artificial Intelligence "Godfathers" Call for Regulation as Rights Groups Warn AI Encodes Oppression . 2023-08-15 . Democracy Now! . en.
  4. Web site: Data 4 Black Lives About Us. 2021-05-21. d4bl.org.
  5. Web site: Fellow. Practitioner. Lab. Digital Civil Society. PACS. Stanford. Tawana Petty. 2021-05-21. Stanford PACS. en-US.
  6. Web site: Performances. Facilitation & workshops, Antiracism trainings. Onward and upward towards coliberation. 2021-05-21. facilitation & workshops, antiracism trainings, performances. en-US.
  7. Web site: Thank you, Tawana! Detroit Community Technology Project. 2021-05-14. detroitcommunitytech.org.
  8. Web site: Peterschmidt. Daniel. Seeking Algorithmic Justice In Policing AI. 2021-05-14. Science Friday. en-US.
  9. Web site: Racial Equity in Data Integration: How to Exclude Racial Bias in Data. 2021-05-14. Built In. en.
  10. Web site: Winn. Ashley. 2019-10-02. The Controversy Over Facial Recognition Software Comes to Detroit. 2021-05-19. Hour Detroit Magazine. en-US.
  11. News: The Business Of Police Surveillance : The Indicator from Planet Money. 2021-05-19. NPR.org. en.
  12. Web site: Depth. 2021-05-19. Science Gallery Detroit. en-US.
  13. Web site: About Us. 2021-05-21. en-US.
  14. Book: D'Ignazio, Catherine. Data feminism. 2020. Lauren F. Klein. 978-0-262-35852-1. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1130235839.
  15. Web site: Petty. Tawana. Saba. Mariella. Lewis. Tamika. Gangadharan. Seeta Peña. Eubanks. Virginia. 2018-06-15. Reclaiming our data: interim report, Detroit. 2021-05-19. www.odbproject.org. en.
  16. Web site: Saba. Mariella. Lewis. Tamika. Petty. Tawana. Gangadharan. Seeta Peña. Eubanks. Virginia. 2016. From Paranoia to Power: Our Data Bodies Project 2016 Report. en.
  17. Book: Introducing... Honeycomb. CreateSpace. 2011.
  18. Book: Coming Out My Box. 2016.
  19. Web site: Staff. M. T.. Tawana 'Honeycomb' Petty performs her one woman show. 2021-05-19. Detroit Metro Times. en.
  20. Tawana Petty. American Black Journal. PBS. 2017-12-15. 46. 6.
  21. Web site: Poets of Color Pave the Way for the Next Generation. 2021-05-19. YES! Magazine. en-US.
  22. Book: Petty, Tawana Honeycomb. Petty Propolis Reader: My Personal and Political Evolution. 2017-06-10. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 978-1-5480-3469-6. en.
  23. Book: Petty, Tawana Honeycomb. Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-racism Organizing. 2018-01-02. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 978-1-9834-9239-6. en.
  24. Web site: 2021. 2021-05-19. 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™. en-US.
  25. Web site: Tawana Petty on LinkedIn: This is an absolute honor. Thank you Center for AI and Digital Policy for… . 2023-03-06 . www.linkedin.com . en.
  26. Web site: GLOBAL AI POLICY LEADERS . 2023-03-06 . Center for AI and Digital Policy . en-US.

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