The Civic Hacker Podcast

This episode features Samuel Singyangwe, the data scientist and policy analyst who founded Mapping Police Violence, the Police Scorecard and co-founded Campaign Zero to advance data-driven solutions to end police violence in America. Samuel shares with us how he and a team of volunteers are gathering data to illuminate the extent of police violence in America, and the ways that we can utilize this data to make real changes within our communities...

Today’s episode features a discussion with Deb Halliday who is a prominent community builder, writer, artist and a nationally recognized leader for multi sector collaborations. Through her firm Halliday and Associates, she regularly speaks with groups large and small about how we can work together in order to have a real impact on our communities and the lives we share...

In today’s episode we connect with Andrew Means who is the founder of the Goodtech Fest conference, co-founder of Brighthive, senior Director for Global Impact Data Strategy at Salesforce.org, and founder of Data Analysts for Social Good. He shares with us what he has learned from dedicating his career towards developing data tools and technologies that help organizations improve their impact, and the ways that you can join him in achieving these goals...

This discussion features Jan Ainali, who served as the CEO of Wikimedia Sverige after co-founding the chapter and being its chairman. Besides his current project with Govdirectory he is also the co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development, a user group in the Wikimedia movement coordinating sustainability efforts across languages...

Today we speak with Max Lynam who is the founder of isgood, an organization that he created to lead an intelligence revolution in the way we measure value. Max shares with us how he came to the work of impact measurement, and his vision for “AI Guided Social Impact” that uses thousands of indicators and millions of data points to enable outcomes that can only be achieved when we focus on what really matters...

Today’s conversation is with Dr. Christina J. Colclough, founder of the Why Not Lab and co-creator of WeClock. She shares how they are working towards putting workers at the center of digital change. Christina works with unions, interest organizations and governments across the world on issues such as AI governance, workers' data rights and human rights, and the development of responsible digital technology...

Today’s featured conversation is with Ricardo Miron who is an avid civic hacker, regular mentor and organizer of hackathons and a community leader at Microsoft, Future Lab. Ricardo discusses his role as Lead Project Manager at Codeando México, and their projects which focus on civic tech, open data, public policy and creating positive social impact in México and beyond. 

Links to info and resources:

https://www.codeandomexico.org/

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In this special bonus episode, we are featuring a conversation between two phenomenal past Civic Hacker Summit speakers; they are Allen Hillery, data storyteller, instructor, and cofounder of Be Data Lit, an educational resource for data literacy advocates, and Samuel Sinyangwe, a data scientist and policy analyst who founded Mapping Police Violence and the Police Scorecard, and co-founded Campaign Zero, to advance data-driven solutions to end police violence in America...

Today’s episode features a discussion with Kathy Cheng who is using data and technology to improve access to affordable housing. Kathy is the senior product manager for Exygy and has experience in early stage high growth startups, as well as digital agency work in sectors ranging from e-commerce to education to digital health. Today she shares with us the platform Bloom Housing by Exygy...

This episode features Channing Nesbitt, who is the co-founder of the Tableau Foundation’s Racial Justice Data Initiative, and led the team driving the Racial Equity Data Hub. 

Channing shares his experiences in these roles and what he has learned from their work to empower users of varying backgrounds to leverage data in combating systemic racism by advancing equity in education, economic opportunity, political empowerment, and justice reform...