The Civic Hacker Podcast

Jack Beck is the Founder and Executive Director of TurnOut, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing communities to power queer and trans movements. TurnOut works year-round to recruit volunteers, staff, and board members for queer and trans nonprofits, providing the training and support they need to maximize their impact in CA communities...

Darío García de Viedma and the team at Citibeats are using technology to help municipal decision-makers prevent and mitigate crises  by analyzing open source data with NLP algorithms. He led the design of the Social Indicators, thanks to an alliance with Princeton and NYU scholars. These are metrics, reported real-time, that measure deep feelings in society such as civic unrest, polarization, perception of inflation, empowerment, and distrust...

Flavio Azevedo covers many important topics, including open science vs. open scholarship, DEIA in academic research, the social justice lens on changing the norms and structures in science and science training, and what advocates and activists can bring into their practice from this work.

Links to info and resources: 

- FORRT Website: ⁠https://forrt.org/

- Flavio's Website: flavioazevedo...

David Corliss is the founder and Director of Peace-Work, an all-volunteer cooperative of statisticians and data scientists applying statistical methods to issue-driven advocacy in poverty, education, social justice, and providing analytic support for charitable groups...