In this episode of the Demystifying Diversity Podcast, host Daralyse Lyons examines the ways in which technology both accelerates and dismantles bias in our workplaces, our homes, and within society at large.
In this episode, you will learn about:
* How it is impossible to fully eradicate bias within technology, and how, in some cases, understanding bias can enable better technological and social outcomes.
* How technology is inherently biased, because it is developed and used by people who themselves have biases.
* How technology, when used properly, can democratize society.
* How technology accelerates the ways in which people are perceived, based on identifying physical characteristics.
* How human decision making can still override technological bias.
Our guests experts this episode include:
Munir Mandviwalla - Munir is Professor of Management Information Systems, Milton F. Stauffer, Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology at Temple University's Fox School of Business
Aleksi Aaltonen - Aleksi assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at Temple University's Fox School of Business, who has over 20 years experience in digital innovation.
Charlotte Alexander - Charlotte holds the Connie Dee and Ken McDaniel women Lead Chair as an Associate Professor of Law and Analytics at the Colleges of Business and Law at Georgia State University, where she uses computational methods to study legal text with a particular focus on understanding how courts process and resolve employment disputes and other types of civil lawsuits. She also founded and directs the university's legal analytics lab, which works towards a legal system that embraces data to solve intractable problems and create a more just society.
Rebbeca Tesfai - Rebbeca is an Associate Professor and researcher at Temple University, who focuses her research on the experiences of black immigrants in America and elsewhere. Rebbeca's research provides a comprehensive account of black immigrants, economic, political, and residential incorporation over time and across place using quantitative methods. She studies black immigrants, occupational wage voting, housing, and residential patterns, and uses these analysis to reexamine our theoretical understanding of both immigrant incorporation and racial stratification.
Liz Brown - Liz is Associate Professor Law and Taxation at Bentley University, who earned her BA from Harvard College and her JD from Harvard Law School. Liz represented Fortune 100 companies for 13 years prior to joining Bentley's faculty.
Yulia Barnakova -Yulia is the Digital Innovation Lead for the consulting practice of Hydrick and Struggles, a global executive search and leadership advisory firm who oversees digital dexterity development would say so. In fact, she gave an entire TEDx talk titled, Think You're Not Tech Savvy? Here's Why You Are, which is about how we should stop doubting our capacity to engage with technology, something she herself has done.
Emma Bloksberg-Fireovid (known as Emma B-F) - Emma is a speaker, trainer and leadership coach for women and non-binary folks in the technology industry. She has worked with hundreds of leaders to accelerate their careers, maximize their confidence, and amplify their impact, and has made it her professional mission to expand leadership opportunities for individuals of color, women and non-binary folks in tech.
Amanda Arias - Amanda is the Director of People and Culture at Jubilee Media, who prior to her current position accumulated more than 10 years of experience helping growth centric startups build high performing teams, operates from the motto, “treat people like people.”
Sharrona Pearl - Sharrona is an Associate Professor of Bioethics and History at Drexel University, a historian, theorist of the face and body who has authored numerous books, scholarly essays, and freelance articles.
Slobodon Vucetic - Slobodon is the Director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence and a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Slobodan is spearheading a multidisciplinary team at Temple that was awarded $2.3 million from the National Science Foundation to develop software that will provide job assistance for those with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Silvia Masiero - Silvia is an associate professor of information systems at the University of Oslo, and the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed works in the domain of information and communication technology for development, also known as ICT4D. Sylvia also co-edited the open access work Covid-19 From the Margins: Pandemic, Invisibility Policies and Resistance in the Data Society.
Stewart Kraintz - Stewart is a mindset, success and relationship coach who works with people individually and in groups to empower them into ownership of their lives. Before stepping into coaching, Stew had a successful career in sales and marketing within professional baseball, having the opportunity to work for the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves, as well as several affiliated minor league clubs.
Soheil Ghili - Soheil is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Yale School of Management, whose main areas of research are quantitative marketing and empirical industrial organization. His most recent research has focused on the determination of prices in vertical markets as well as two-sided markets. Soheil has also been conducting research around the subject of algorithmic justice, and he shared with me that there are strategies that we can utilize to program technology, so it improves social outcomes.
Juan Otero - Juan currently serves as senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Comcast Corporation, where he oversees operational management of the company's D, E, and I efforts across the corporate enterprise. He previously served as vice president for Comcast Corporation's federal government affairs team, where he was responsible for federal legislative advocacy with members of Congress and the administration. In addition, Juan sits on several national nonprofit boards, including Easter Seals, the Hispanic Federation, and the Smithsonian's Latino Center.
Rachel Lyons - Rachel is the Executive Director at Space for Humanity, a nonprofit organization which aims to make space flight available as a way to expand human perspectives, and the former vice chair of the board of directors of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space USA.
Resources this episode include:
Jubilee SPECTRUM Series on YouTube
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