Yeshimabeit Milner Explained

Yeshimabeit Milner
Birth Place:United States
Alma Mater:Brown University
Occupation:Technologist, activist
Awards:Roddenberry Foundation Fellowship (2018)

Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner is an American technologist and activist.[1] [2] She is the executive director and co-founder of Data for Black Lives.[3] [4]

Early life and education

Yeshimabeit Milner grew up in Miami, Florida.[5] [6] Starting in her late teens, Milner became involved in activism and data science.[7] [8] [9] She worked with the Power U Center for Social Change as a high school senior.[10] Milner attended Brown University, graduating in 2012 with a BA degree in Africana Studies.[11]

Career

In 2013 at age 22, after returning to Miami after college, Milner started working with the Power U Center for Social Change and looking at Black infant mortality rates locally in trying to understand why they were disproportionately so high.[12] They were able to retrieve data from 300 mothers, and as a result changed local policy.

One of her classmates at Brown University was mathematician Lucas Mason-Brown, together they founded Data for Black Lives in November 2017.[13] [14] The Data for Black Lives (D4BL) annual conference was started in 2018 by Yeshimabeit Milner and Lucas Mason- Brown.[15] They use the slogan, "Abolish Big Data!" with hopes to redesign big data and to "put data into the hands of those who need it most".[16] [17] In 2020, the group was able to compile state-level data about the impact of COVID-19 on Black people and are working on compiling a nationwide database of technologies used by police departments.[18] In 2021, Milner co-wrote a research piece for Demos on algorithmic racism from Big Tech companies.[19] [20]

Awards and accolades

Milner served on the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee. In 2018, she was awarded a Roddenberry Foundation Fellowship, which honors and invests in extraordinary people who can change the world.[21] In 2020, Data for Black Lives and its founders were awarded the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the New York Times 2020 Good Tech Awards.[22]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-06-22. Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner. 2021-01-17. Equal Justice Society. en-US.
  2. Book: D'Ignazio . Catherine . Data Feminism . Klein . Lauren F. . 2020-03-17 . MIT Press . 978-0-262-04400-4 . 206 . en.
  3. News: Roose. Kevin. 2020-12-30. The 2020 Good Tech Awards. The New York Times. 2021-01-16. 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: 9 Black Women in Data Science to Know Built In. 2022-01-02. builtin.com. en.
  5. Web site: Cocco. Federica. Smith. Alan. July 22, 2020. Race and America: Why Data Matters. limited. 2021-01-17. Financial Times. The Financial Times Limited.
  6. Web site: Lo. Puck. 2018-05-30. Practitioner Profile: Yeshimabeit Milner. 2021-01-16.
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  7. Web site: 2019-07-31. 2019 Speakers. 2021-01-17. Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). en-US.
  8. Web site: Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives. 2021-01-16. IGSF. McGill University.
  9. Web site: Databite No. 129: Abolish Big Data. 2022-01-02. Data & Society. en-US.
  10. Web site: Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner. 2021-01-17. Netroots Nation. en-US.
  11. Web site: Rosenfeld. Maia. 2019-02-21. University event highlights complexities of data power. 2021-01-16. Brown Daily Herald.
  12. Web site: December 11, 2019. Ashoka. Why We Need Data For Black Lives. 2021-01-17. Forbes. en.
  13. Web site: Profile: Data for Black Lives. 2021-01-17. Forbes. en.
  14. Web site: Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.. 2021-01-17. MIT Technology Review. en.
  15. Web site: Miller. Sandi. December 13, 2017. Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination. 2021-01-17. MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. en.
  16. Donovan. Joan. 2020-01-14. Redesigning consent: big data, bigger risks. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. en-US. 1. 1. 10.37016/mr-2020-006. free.
  17. Book: Kilgore, James . Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration . 2022-01-18 . The New Press . 978-1-62097-615-9 . 193 . en.
  18. Web site: Roose. Kevin. The 2020 Good Tech Awards. 2021-01-17. baltimoresun.com. 31 December 2020 .
  19. Web site: Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism. 2021-12-14. Demos. en.
  20. Web site: 2021-08-11. The Capitalist in the Machine: Decoding Data Capitalism. 2021-12-27. Nonprofit Quarterly. en-US.
  21. Web site: Yeshimabeit Milner. 2021-02-21. Roddenberry Foundation. en-US.
  22. Web site: 30 Under 30 2020: Social Entrepreneurs. 2021-01-17. Forbes. en.

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