Join us for an open discussion exploring the challenges of making data practices more equitable. We will discuss how recent executive orders related to DEI, federal funding, and data transparency have impacted your work. Additionally, we’ll reflect on the broader challenges of integrating equity considerations into your data processes. By sharing these experiences, you’ll learn how other organizations adapt their approaches and discover new ideas for implementing equity practices. Come ready to contribute to a conversation about what’s working, what isn’t, and how we can support one another in advancing data equity.

About this group:

We are a group of data users in Connecticut who are supporting one another as we work toward more equitable data practices. We focus on racial equity explicitly but not exclusively.

Some of the topics we talk about include:

How can we make sure we don't make certain groups invisible through how we disaggregate our data?
How can we learn to focus our attention on the strengths, rather than the deficits, of groups we are seeking to serve or support?
How can we learn from the people who we hope will benefit from our products or services about what their data means to them?
How can we help the institutions that we are part of to be trustworthy so that people will trust us with their information/data?

Please feel free to check out the group. And if it is helpful, please share it!

Community Conversations: Challenges in Data Equity Work