Race + Data Science: Renée Cummings

 

Renée Cummings, Data Activist in Residence at the UVA School of Data Science, is speaking at Columbia's Race + Data Science Lecture series. This series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data, engineering, and computational science on Wednesday, October 6 from 1 - 2 pm. With this series of events, Columbia's goal is to improve how we, as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers, speak about race. 

The moderator will be Desmond Upton Patton, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, The Data Science Institute, Columbia University. Patton is also Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Dean of Curriculum Innovation and Academic Affairs; and Courtesy Appointment in Department of Sociology, Columbia University School of Social Work.

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