Housed in Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies, the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool the relationship between stories and statistics, power and technology, data and justice.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

—Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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Undergraduate Research Associates work in collaboration with community partners on a range of research projects — from mapping the work of companies engaged in immigrant surveillance to developing tools for formerly incarcerated small business owners. Our aim is to create a set of freely available resources that can be used to spark ongoing research, teaching, and organizing.

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Major sponsors include Princeton’s Office of Information Technology, Center for Digital Humanities, Lewis Center for the Arts, and Department of African American Studies.

Additional support from Anthropology + VizE Lab, Carl Fields Center for Equality + Cultural Understanding, Center for Health & Wellbeing, Council for the Humanities Magic Mini-Grant, History, John H. Pace Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engagement, Office of Religious Life, Politics, Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), School for Public & International Affairs, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, TigerWell, and University Center for Human Values.