Yeshimabeit Milner

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Yeshimabeit Milner
Alma materBrown University
OccupationActivist and data scientist
Known forFounding Data for Black Lives, Black activism, data science

Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner is an American technologist and activist.[1] She is the executive director and co-founder of Data for Black Lives.[2] Data for Black Lives has been working on advancing people of color in the fields of computing and artificial intelligence, in order to fight against racial bias in technology.[3]

Early life and education[]

Yeshimabeit Milner grew up in Miami, Florida.[4][5] She started at age 17, Milner became politically active and interested in data.[6][7] She worked with the Power U Center for Social Change as a high school senior.[1][8] Yeshimabeit Milner attended Brown University, graduating in 2012 with a BA degree in Africana Studies.[9][5]

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.[10][8] They was able to retrieve data from 300 moms, and as a result change local policy.[10]

One of her classmates at Brown University was mathematician Lucas Mason-Brown, together they founded Data for Black Lives in November 2017.[11][12] The Data for Black Lives (D4BL) annual conference was started in 2018 by Yeshimabeit Milner, Lucas Mason-Brown, and Max Clermont.[13] 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”.[14] 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.[15] In 2021, Milner co-wrote a research piece for Demos on algorithmic racism from Big Tech companies.[16][17]

Awards and accolades[]

Milner serves on the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee.[1] In 2018, she was awarded a Roddenberry Foundation Fellowship, which honors and invests in extraordinary people who can change the world.[18] 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.[2][19]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner". Equal Justice Society. 2018-06-22. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  2. ^ a b Roose, Kevin (2020-12-30). "The 2020 Good Tech Awards". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  3. ^ Berreby, David (2020-11-22). "Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  4. ^ Cocco, Federica; Smith, Alan (July 22, 2020). "Race and America: Why Data Matters". Financial Times. The Financial Times Limited. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  5. ^ a b Lo, Puck (2018-05-30). "Practitioner Profile: Yeshimabeit Milner". #MoreThanCode. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  6. ^ "2019 Speakers". Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  7. ^ "Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives". IGSF. McGill University. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  8. ^ a b "Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner". Netroots Nation. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  9. ^ Rosenfeld, Maia (2019-02-21). "University event highlights complexities of data power". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  10. ^ a b "Why We Need Data For Black Lives". Forbes. Ashoka. December 11, 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-17.CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ^ "Profile: Data for Black Lives". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  12. ^ "Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  13. ^ Miller, Sandi (December 13, 2017). "Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination". MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  14. ^ Donovan, Joan (2020-01-14). "Redesigning consent: big data, bigger risks". Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. 1 (1). doi:10.37016/mr-2020-006.
  15. ^ Roose, Kevin. "The 2020 Good Tech Awards". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  16. ^ "Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism". Demos. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  17. ^ "The Capitalist in the Machine: Decoding Data Capitalism". Nonprofit Quarterly. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  18. ^ "Yeshimabeit Milner". Roddenberry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  19. ^ "30 Under 30 2020: Social Entrepreneurs". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-17.

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