Beyond Fairness: Big Data, Racial Justice & Housing
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 | 9:00am – 4:30pm | E14, 6th floor
Beyond Fairness: Big Data, Racial Justice & Housing explores the intersection of data, algorithms and AI in relation to housing insecurity, home ownership and evictions. This includes engaging with the long history of racial injustice in the US and how it permeates all aspects of present-day data collection and data-driven systems such as credit scoring, tenant screening, and mortgage loan applications.
For a recap of the event, please navigate to the Videos page.
Please navigate to the Housing team website for an overview of the current Housing research projects
Confirmed Speakers
Jessica Bellamy
Co-Principal Investigator (Root Cause Research Center)
Jacob Faber
Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service (NYU)
Dania V. Francis
Assistant Professor Economics Department (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Timnit Gebru
Founder - Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research institute (DAIR)
Ben Green
Assistant Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (University of Michigan)
Nancy Kwak
Associate Professor, History Department and Affiliate of the Urban Studies and Planning Department (UC San Diego)
Elora Lee Raymond
urban planner and Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning (Georgia Tech)
Pranay Lohia
Senior ML Researcher (Microsoft)
Erin McElroy
Co-founder (Anti-Eviction Mapping Project)
Todd Michney
Assistant Professor, School of History and Sociology (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Tawana Petty
Founding Director (Petty Propolis)
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
Eva Rosen
Assistant Professor McCourt School of Public Policy (Georgetown University)
Justin Steil
Assistant Professor of Law and Urban Planning (MIT DUSP)
