Yeshimabeit Milner | |
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Born | United States |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Occupation(s) | Technologist, activist |
Awards | Roddenberry 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]
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]
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]
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]
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