Talk is happening today! *Seminar Details* Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93631628972 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://washington.zoom.us/j/93631628972&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1714872914130216&usg=AOvVaw1BoeN-eNFGFjveW3VLXOcb>
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:03 PM Innocent Obi <inno...@cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Quick reminder that next Tuesday, *April 30th*, Change seminar is excited > to have (virtually) Jared > <https://www.google.com/search?q=jated+Fishnab&oq=jated+Fishnab&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQABgNGIAEMgkIAhAAGA0YgAQyCQgDEAAYDRiABDIJCAQQABgNGIAEMgkIBRAAGA0YgAQyCQgGEAAYDRiABDILCAcQABgKGA0YgAQyCQgIEAAYDRiABDIJCAkQABgNGIAE0gEIMjU3MGowajSoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8> > and Joanie <https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaniew> from the Justice > Innovation Lab <https://www.justiceinnovationlab.org/>. They will speak > to us about their work in using data science and HCDE to make our justice > system more fair and effective. This talk is co-hosted with the Behavioral > Data > Science Group <https://behavioral-data.github.io/>. We look forward to > seeing you all there. See more details below. Please RSVP if you are > planning to attend! <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> > > *Title:* Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more > fair and effective justice system > > *Seminar Details* > Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates > Center) > Zoom: TBA (subscribe to our public calendar > <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19kZjM0MjNlMjE4NzFhYWRhNWY0MjRkYTc3NzdmNmViNDYxYmVjNjJhODdiNGE2OTRhZDA1MDI1YWEzM2I3ODRhQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20> > or > check our website <https://change.washington.edu/>) > > *Description:* Over 10 million people cycle through jails each year, > mostly for low-level, non-violent offenses. Around 2 million people are > living behind bars on any given day, with hundreds of thousands held > without a conviction while awaiting trial. This has a particularly > devastating impact on minority and low-income communities, which are > disproportionately represented in the criminal legal system. At Justice > Innovation Lab, we help communities improve public safety while reducing > harmful outcomes, including unnecessary incarceration and unjust racial and > economic disparities. This talk will explain how Justice Innovation Lab is > helping communities use system-thinking, human-centered design and > data-analytics to improve community outcomes. > > *Bio:* > *Jared Fishman* (he/him) - Jared Fishman is committed to finding > innovative solutions to the complex, social justice challenges of our > times. He is the founder and executive director of Justice Innovation Lab. > Prior to founding JIL, Jared served for 14 years as a federal prosecutor > in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He led some of > America’s most complex civil rights prosecutions, securing convictions in > high-profile cases involving police misconduct, hate crimes, and human > trafficking. He is the author of Fire on the Levee: the Murder of Henry > Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina. Jared serves > as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and > Georgetown University. His work and analysis have been featured on CNN, > CBS, CBC, and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jared earned > his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, and his > bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. > > *Joanie Weaver (*she/her) - Joanie is a data engineer at the Justice > Innovation Lab. In this role, she partners with District Attorney’s offices > to help them clean and analyze their prosecution data to identify > inefficiencies and racial disparities. Prior to her role at Justice > Innovation Lab, Joanie received her Master’s in Information and Data > Science from UC Berkeley, worked at Microsoft, and received a Bachelor of > Science in Computer Science from MIT. > > *Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) *- Justice Innovation Lab is an > organization that builds data-informed, people-centered solutions for a > more fair and effective justice system. Justice Innovation Lab helps > communities across the U.S. identify and fix harmful outcomes in their > criminal justice systems. JIL uses a collaborative, data-informed approach > to identify and fix harmful outcomes in criminal justice systems across the > US. > > If you are interested, please fill out this RSVP > <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> form so that we can ensure that we > have enough lunch for those attending. > > Best, > > UW Change Organizers > _______________________________________________ > Researchers mailing list > research...@cs.washington.edu > https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers >
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