Hi, there! I'm Brandeis Marshall.

I'm an apologetically Black education activist, particularly for Black women thriving in data and tech careers. In standard teaching lessons and innovation work, Black women’s contributions weren’t featured nor the social impact lens that affects Black women. So I highlighted Black brilliance and added current social context in my lessons and research. My classroom discussions turned into mentoring and coaching sessions for late-stage college students to tenured academics. For example, I co-ran the Broadening Participation in Data Mining 2-day program from 2012-2016. About 200 college and graduate minoritized students learned and grew their data mining understanding through tech seminars, mentoring activities and networking circles. 

I realized that the gaslighting patterns and confidence struggles -- the disrespect of women, especially Black women, has to stop! So, I became an entrepreneur and started my business DataedX (pronounced data-ed-x). DataedX, at its core, counteracts automated oppression efforts with eye-opening instruction for organization’s team members and for Black women. 

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DataedX primarily offers services to help companies improve their data equity practices. They conduct trainings and develop strategies to build just data fluency from the entry-level worker to the C-Suite executive. In 2019, I co-created BeyondOne, DataedX’s data prep online community for Black women, to provide a safe haven to grow, share or pivot in data regardless of their profession. BeyondOne continues my advocacy in reaching Black women globally to understand how discrimination in data is made and finding ways to cope and combat it.  

Why data? Because data is fueling the algorithms that’s making the tech and that tech is perpetuating harm to Black women. We can end this relentless cycle with culturally responsible data education and intentional processes dissemination.

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B.S. Computer Science, UofR

M.S./PhD Computer Science, RPI

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computer science x data wing

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race & feminism & class;

What's Happening

• I'm writing a tech book about data, algorithms and society! It'll be talking plain and showing via code our siege on humanity as we also fight for people’s equity. Coming 2022 from Wiley. Sign up for updates here. 

• Selected as a Stanford PACS DCSL Practitioner Fellow, 2021-22 (press release announcement)

• "Waking up to Marginalization: Public Value Failures in  Artificial Intelligence and Data Science" accepted to the 2nd Affinity Group Workshop on Diversity in Artificial Intelligence: Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion (AIDBEI) at AAAI 2021

• Listed as 1 of 1000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America by Cell Press 

• Listed as 1 of 200 Black Women In Tech To Follow on Twitter {2021 List}

• Quoted in OneZero's An A.I. Training Tool Has Been Passing Its Bias to Algorithms for Almost Two Decades

• The Artists of Data Science Interview: Tech Culture Needs to Embrace EQUITY

• Quoted in Vice's Google Has 'Shattered' Its Pipeline To Black Talent

• Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2019-present)

HBS DI/GI Talk | February 2021 | Just Digital Future Event

Let's Connect

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