VOICE OUT! Training & Empowering Youth to Become Citizen Data-Journalists

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Our Team

Jessie Daniels | Jen Jack Gieseking | Karen Gregory | Fiona Lee | Evan Misshula | Chris Alen Sula

Jessie DanielsJessie Daniels is a Professor at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Since 2007, Daniels has maintained a scholarly blog, Racism Review, with Joe Feagin. Racism Review regularly gets 200,000 unique visitors each month, and has received well over than 2 million visitors since it began. The blog, along with her scholarship (see Cyber Racism and lots more of her research here), brings together diverse interests in digital media, social inequality, and reimagining scholarly communication. Most days, Twitter is the place you’re most likely to find her online (@JessieNYC). Forbes Magazine recently named me one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter” (no, really). You can see her recent First Five interview for more.

Her latest project is reimagining scholarly communication to engage social justice in the digital era is: JustPublics@365. It is funded by the Ford Foundation.

square head shotJen Jack Gieseking is Visiting Assistant Research Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds a PhD in environmental psychology. Her work as an urban cultural geographer and environmental psychologist examines how everyday co-productions of space and identity support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice with a special focus on sexuality and gender. She is working on her first book, Queer New York: Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Geographies of Social and Spatial Justice in New York City, 1983-2008. She has held fellowships with Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow; The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics; The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies; and the Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellows Program. She is co-editor of Geographies of Gender & Sexualities, with Gavin Brown, Kath Browne, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Lynda Johnston, and Jason Lim which is forthcoming from Ashgate in 2015. She has published in AreaQualitative InquiryJournal of Urban Studies, and Journal of Social Issues. Jack serves as the Project Manager for JustPublics@365, a partnership between The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Ford Foundation that rethinks scholarly communication in the digital era. She can be found at jgieseking.org and @jgieseking.

Photo-on-2011-08-20-at-14.15-2Karen Gregory is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her interests are ethnography, contemporary social theory, and the sociology of labor. Her dissertation, entitled “Enchanted Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Psychics in New York City”, is an ethnographic account of the labor of alternative practitioners and is drawn from two years of work at an esoteric school in the city. Her dissertation explores the intersection of contemporary spirituality, labor, and social media.

Karen is also an Instructional Technology Fellow at the Macaulay Honors College (Hunter College) and is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Labor Studies Department of Queens College. Karen has also held a Teaching and Learning Fellowship in the Office of General Education at Queens College, as well as a Writing Fellowship at LaGuardia Community College. Her writing has appeared in Women Studies Quarterly, Women and Performance, and Visual Studies. You can find Karen on Twitter at @claudiakincaid

FionaFiona Lee is a Ph.D Candidate in the English program at CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation research examines the impact of the cold war on the transition from colonial rule to formal independence in Malaysia through literary and visual culture. She is also an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College and a dissertation fellow at the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center. Her writing has appeared in Concentric, Interventions, and  Reviews in Cultural Theory .

EvanEvan Misshula is a PhD student at CUNY John Jay in Criminal Justice. His specialties are prisoner reentry, data mining, and threat classification. During the summer of 2013, he will be an inaugural Data Science for Social Good at the University of Chicago’s Computation Institute and Argonne National Labratory. During 2012, he received fellowships from received support from the CUNY Graduate Center’s Advanced Research Collaborative, the US Cyberchallenge’s Virginia Regional Cybercamp and the EPIC program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Additionally, he won the Steve and Elly Hammerman prize for ethics in the curriculum from the Center for Criminal Justice Ethics at CUNY John Jay. In 2010, he received a fellowship to attend the Data Sciences Summer Institute 2010 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne Computer Science Department. In addition to my teaching fellowship, he receives funding from the College Initiative where he has served as both a mentor and math tutor.

Evan is interested in using data mining on social networks to improve risk analysis. In particular, he is interested in targeting post incarceration sanctions only on those persons who present a danger to others. He is also interested in using social networks to help people obtain education and escape poverty. He has taught statistics, remedial math and computer security.

csula2Chris Alen Sula is Assistant Professor at the School of Information & Library Science at Pratt Institute and Coordinator of Digital Humanities. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York with a doctoral certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

His research centers on visualization, both the ethics and politics of visualization as well as the use of visualization for understanding large datasets, especially those in philosophy. He has also written about the digital humanities and cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, and museums).

His broader work examines how technology can support democracy and social movements, especially through participatory methods. Find him @chrisalensula.

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