Biography:Yeshimabeit Milner

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Short description: American technologist and African American activist
Yeshimabeit Milner
Born
United States
Alma materBrown University
OccupationTechnologist, activist
AwardsRoddenberry 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][7] Starting in her late teens, Milner became involved in activism and data science.[8][9][10] She worked with the Power U Center for Social Change as a high school senior.[1][6] Milner attended Brown University, graduating in 2012 with a BA degree in Africana Studies.[11][7]

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][6] They were able to retrieve data from 300 mothers, and as a result changed local policy.[12][third-party source needed]

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.[1] 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.[3][22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner" (in en-US). 2018-06-22. https://equaljusticesociety.org/mindscience/speakers/yeshimilner/. 
  2. ↑ D'Ignazio, Catherine; Klein, Lauren F. (2020-03-17) (in en). Data Feminism. MIT Press. pp. 206. ISBN 978-0-262-04400-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=x5nSDwAAQBAJ. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roose, Kevin (2020-12-30). "The 2020 Good Tech Awards". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/technology/2020-good-tech-awards.html. 
  4. ↑ "9 Black Women in Data Science to Know | Built In" (in en). https://builtin.com/data-science/black-women-data-science. 
  5. ↑ Cocco, Federica; Smith, Alan (July 22, 2020). "Race and America: Why Data Matters". The Financial Times Limited. https://www.ft.com/content/156f770a-1d77-4f6b-8616-192fb58e3735. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner" (in en-US). https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/yeshimabeit-milner/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lo, Puck (2018-05-30). "Practitioner Profile: Yeshimabeit Milner". https://morethancode.cc/2018/05/30/practitioner-profile-yeshimabeit-milner.html. 
  8. ↑ "2019 Speakers" (in en-US). 2019-07-31. https://isgmh.northwestern.edu/speakers/. 
  9. ↑ "Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives". IGSF. McGill University. https://www.mcgill.ca/igsf/channels/event/yeshimabeit-milner-abolish-big-data-and-data-4-black-lives-326377. 
  10. ↑ "Databite No. 129: Abolish Big Data" (in en-US). https://datasociety.net/library/abolish-big-data/. 
  11. ↑ Rosenfeld, Maia (2019-02-21). "University event highlights complexities of data power". Brown Daily Herald. https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/02/21/data-can-influence-inequalities-panelists-say/. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Why We Need Data For Black Lives" (in en). December 11, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2019/12/11/why-we-need-data-for-black-lives/. 
  13. ↑ "Profile: Data for Black Lives" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/profile/data-for-black-lives/. 
  14. ↑ "Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled." (in en). https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predictive-policing-algorithms-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice/. 
  15. ↑ Miller, Sandi (December 13, 2017). "Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination" (in en). https://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-data-for-black-lives-conference-calculates-cost-of-tech-driven-discrimination-1213. 
  16. ↑ Donovan, Joan (2020-01-14). "Redesigning consent: big data, bigger risks" (in en-US). Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 1 (1). doi:10.37016/mr-2020-006. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/big-data-bigger-risks/. 
  17. ↑ Kilgore, James (2022-01-18) (in en). Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration. The New Press. pp. 193. ISBN 978-1-62097-615-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=QzMWEAAAQBAJ. 
  18. ↑ Roose, Kevin (31 December 2020). "The 2020 Good Tech Awards". https://www.baltimoresun.com/consumer-reviews/sns-nyt-good-tech-awards-20201231-wu3gp57lfzcbnbhzn4esvbpt5e-story.html. 
  19. ↑ "Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism" (in en). https://www.demos.org/research/data-capitalism-and-algorithmic-racism. 
  20. ↑ "The Capitalist in the Machine: Decoding Data Capitalism" (in en-US). 2021-08-11. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-capitalist-in-the-machine-decoding-data-capitalism/. 
  21. ↑ "Yeshimabeit Milner" (in en-US). https://roddenberryfoundation.org/blog/fellow/yeshimabeit-milner/. 
  22. ↑ "30 Under 30 2020: Social Entrepreneurs" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2020/social-entrepreneurs/. 

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