Welcome to the Lab
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 data for justice.
Join us March 8 @ Noon EDT for conversation on datafication, policing, and the construction of the criminal across borders, from Los Angeles to Hyderabad.
Researchers in the JDL 2023 Tech Freedom School will present their work at the Second Annual Civics of Technology Conference. Register here.
CITP Special Event: Tech In Conversation: Imagining Radical Tech Futures
Click here to learn more about this event, and click here to register for the Zoom webinar.
In Spring 2023 the lab is hosting a Critical + Creative Career Fair, Mondays 5:00-6:00pm, email sr8834@princeton.edu for Zoom link.
APRIL 2023
Artist-in-Residence Chanika Svetvilas will present her ongoing work, Anonymous Was the Data,
Monday, April 17 at 4:30 pm at the Julis Romo Rabinowitz, Room A17
Dr. Benjamin will be delivering the keynote address at the Civics of Technology conference Visioning Just Futures. Register here.
April 25-29, 2022 Black Tech Policy Week. More info here.
Monday April 11, 2022 4:30pm “Imagining Radical Tech Futures” co-sponsored by Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, moderated by Kenia Hale. Click here for recorded conversation.
Fri Feb 11, 2022 5:30pm ET, “COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid: Global Inequality & the Intl People’s Vaccine” talk by Leah Smith ‘22, register here.
Fri Nov 5th, 2021 Noon, Lab RAs Henry Vecchione & Maya Rabinowitz will present their research at the Data 4 Public Good, register here.
Tues Oct 5th, 2021 6pm ET, Artist talk & screening with Mimi Onuoha, Zoom link tbd
Tues Oct 12, 2021 6pm ET Book panel with Nettrice Gaskins, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Ayodamola Okunseinde, and Stephanie Dinkins, Zoom link tbd
Announcements
OCTOBER 2022
Payton Croskey and Kenia Hale will be speaking at the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance Data 4 Public Good Conference. Register here.
SEPTEMBER 2022
The lab welcomes the 2022-23 Artist-in Residence, Chanika Svetvilas whose project, Anonymous Was the Data, will be on exhibit in Lewis Center for the Arts in Sept 2023. For project updates click here.
AUGUST 2022
The Lab’s 2022 Tech Freedom School Initiative is profiled in Word in Black. Click here to read.
JULY 2022
Payton Croskey was featured on the Tech Policy Leaders podcast. Click here to listen!
JUNE 2022
Congratulations to Emerging Scholar Kenia Hale, who was invited to and presented at the United Nations Development Program’s Accelerator Labs “Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence” Conference in Doha, Qatar June 12th-14th. There, Kenia presented a lecture titled, “Towards an Equitable and Just AI Future” and mentored representatives from over 91 countries.
Congratulations to Kenia Hale & Payton Croskey, whose panel “Liberatory Technology And Digital Marronage” (which grew out of their work in the lab) was accepted for the 4S/ESOCITE Joint Meeting in Mexico this December!
Lab affiliates Kenia Hale and Payton Croskey are profiled in this Boston Review article, “How a New Generation is Combatting Digital Surveillance”!
MAY 2022
Just Data Lab Creative Content Director, Payton Croskey, is the winner of the 2022 FitzRandolph Gate Award for her paper “The Augmented Undercommons and The Path to the Sun: An Exploration of Liberatory Technology and other Revolutionary Tools.” Watch the Trailer!
JULY 2021
The lab welcomes Dr. Philip V. McHarris, who joins us as part of the Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Program.
JUNE 2021
The lab welcomes our Inaugural Artist-in-Resident, Mimi Onuoha. Learn more here.
FEB 2021
The lab is partnering with Mijente and the Immigration Defense Fund this Spring!
News
March 17, 2021
Lab Associate Director, Cierra Robson, speaks at Brown University, profile here.
Feb 22, 2021
Read more about our work in this “Not JUST Data” profile.