13. Time as an organizing resource - especially for youth activists

2. Datasets aren't everything: Professor Marccus Hendricks and Angela talk about what it means to be a scholar, public servant and city planner when you're working towards social equity and community partnership. by Data Dialogues

24 min listen

1. Public data, public grievances: Open Tallahassee founder Shelby Green joins host Angela Eaton on our first Data Dialogues to talk about her experiences sourcing inaccessible data (we're talking "Request a CD-ROM from your local government in 2021" inaccessible...) to map traffic accidents in her Tallahassee community. by Data Dialogues

24 min listen

6. Averaged-out data = averaged-out people: Together in their full dialogue with Angela, Daphne Frias & Jarah Moesch swap stories about disability-related air travel data (or lack thereof) and bemoan the way things break when you look for quick fixes, whether it comes to climate change, disability access, or data visualization. by Data Dialogues

40 min listen

3. Making the invisible data and infrastructure visible: Who is responsible for brokering information? What does meaningful public dialogue look like? How does this affect and reflect Black and brown communities in the U.S.? Shelby Green & Marccus Hendricks talk through these questions and more in their full dialogue with Angela. by Data Dialogues

50 min listen

10. Oyster parties for community health: Tico Aran, founder of Watershed Action Lab in Miami, talks with Angela about the communal efforts in Biscayne Bay to create habitats for the Eastern Oyster, a keystone species once prevalent up and down the coasts of North and South America. The result: improved water quality, more biodiversity, and a return to play for the next generation of local kids. by Data Dialogues

18 min listen

7. Sidestepping the information extraction trap: Who is a leader and who can be a spokesperson for a community? Gwen Smith, founder of Atlanta's CHARRS, and Angela discuss ways to increase community participation and share the load with government in environmental justice work. by Data Dialogues

23 min listen

12. Environmental work creates wealth generation for communities: In their full dialogue with Angela, Tico Aran & Darrah Blackwater connect waterways with airwaves, talking through the importance of local knowledge and how to get people to care about the physicality of something that's hard to grasp: invertebrate oysters + invisible spectrum. by Data Dialogues

46 min listen

4. Climate change is a disabling event: Disabled youth climate activist Daphne Frias has a lot to say about gatekeeping in the environmental movement, from the lack of information in Spanish to disabled communities' inability to access data about themselves. In this episode of Data Dialogues, Daphne and Angela discuss (in English) the importance of personal stories in bringing solutions to our problems. by Data Dialogues

24 min listen

8. Data --> trust and alignment (that's the goal anyway): In his role as public servant, Michael Ogletree thinks a lot about ways that people use data, both personally and collectively, and talks with Angela about his efforts to increase trust between local air quality agencies and communities in Colorado through the Love My Air Denver program. by Data Dialogues

21 min listen

5. Interdependence for environmental justice design: Dr. Jarah Moesch & Angela reflect on the ways members of the disabled community leverage online spaces to participate in environmental justice efforts, respond to climate events, and participate in all parts of the design process. by Data Dialogues

22 min listen

9. Data is personal: Gwen Smith and Michael Ogletree get right into the thorny parts of how government and local communities work and don't work with environmental data, in their full conversation with Angela. by Data Dialogues

50 min listen

15. Demystifying data through community data collection: What’s the best time to make change in your environment? Sof Petros and Muki Haklay come together with Angela Eaton to talk about conflicting climate choices, investing in youth activists, and supporting environmental work in every stage of life. by Data Dialogues

49 min listen

11. Native spectrum sovereignty: the airwaves as environmental assets: Darrah Blackwater breaks down how she connects Native people to their sovereign rights by advocating for broadband, radio waves, and other airwaves to be recognized as a natural resource. by Data Dialogues

20 min listen

14. Data co-optation, data cooperation: Muki Haklay, a geography professor at University College of London (UCL), thinks of environmental information as "an object of wonder" and speaks with Angela about healthy knowledge exchange at the Extreme Citizen Science Lab between local environmental monitors and UCL researchers. by Data Dialogues

16 min listen

16. Is "more data" the relevant question?: Natasha Udu-gama, of AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange, connects residents to professional scientists to answer local environmental questions. Surprise (for anyone working with Western science)! Natasha challenges us to look “further than data” to find the best information and considers how we can repurpose the knowledge we already have. by Data Dialogues

22 min listen

13. Time as an organizing resource - especially for youth activists: Sof Petros, an organizer with Future Coalition, teaches youth climate activists how to source and use quality data that will help them be more effective in their work. Sof and Angela Eaton think on different ways people can participate in climate justice - especially by asking: we pay scientists for their work so why wouldn't we pay organizers? by Data Dialogues

20 min listen

18. Building the two-way street between "experts" and "community": What does it take for scientists and lawyers to really work with communities - and how does it change them? In the final episode of Season 1, Angela talks with Natasha Udu-gama and Jill Habig about how they set up the conditions for community relationships, making the case for personal transformation and culture change in government, academia, and the law. by Data Dialogues

50 min listen

Kinipan's fight against palm oil: Madhuri follows the mapping process into the mountains of Borneo to speak with indigenous leader Pak Effendi Buhing. He provides testimony about how the Dayak community are using participatory mapping against palm oil conglomerate PT-SML. by Data Dialogues

33 min listen

More maps, more problems: This season navigates the promises and frustrations of Indonesia’s OneMap policy: a decade-long, ongoing effort to resolve land conflicts with environmental data. Host Madhuri Karak delves into the limitations of modern cartography and indigenous struggles over being seen. by Data Dialogues

19 min listen

17. Listening differently: alternatives to complaints-based systems: Community members should not have to be "extraordinary" to access their rights. Jill Habig, founder of Public Rights Project, uses the law to change economic and environmental systems that allow only extraordinary individuals to defy them. In this episode, she shares ways that she's found local governments, by listening just a little differently, have strengthened their bonds with communities and protected the environment. by Data Dialogues

20 min listen

Right place, right time: the ideal conditions for a OneMap policy: Global powers outsourced climate responsibilities to Indonesia with a deceptively simple idea: the Global North would pay Indonesian villages to not deforest. But you need to know who owns the forest being protected so you can pay them to protect it - and that was the role assigned to OneMap. by Data Dialogues

27 min listen

Spatial data + social accuracy: the politics of participatory mapping: In this episode, we learn about JKPP, Indonesia's community mapping network of 190 organizationsl; JKPP's national convener and data team talk with Madhuri about spatial data, social accuracy, and participatory mapping as a political process. by Data Dialogues

25 min listen

Drones, birds & the gray in between: What does mapping sound like? What does it feel like? In our second-to-last episode, Madhuri moves beyond the visual to wrestle with how we might center indigenous ways of knowing, through multi-sensory and multi-species ethnography. by Data Dialogues

27 min listen

From mapping to monitoring: the international scope of resistance: In the season's final episode, we zoom out: palm oil companies are traveling to new countries searching for cheap land and easy land acquisition laws. Toolkits resisting land grabbing by palm oil are traveling, too. Madhuri looks at how mapping and monitoring initiatives from Indonesia have moved across borders to take root in Liberia in Western Africa. by Data Dialogues

31 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

13. Time as an organizing resource - especially for youth activists

13. Time as an organizing resource - especially for youth activists

Description

Titles in the series (24)

More Episodes from Data Dialogues

Related podcast episodes