My name is Kendra Lodewick and I run Program and Policy Insight, a women-owned applied social policy research and evaluation firm dedicated to improving social and economic opportunities for individuals, families, and communities. I am based in Portland, OR, but work all over the country. My favorite part of this work is learning from and elevating the voices, experience, and knowledge of program participants and community partners. I am excited to be here!
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Hello! My name is Stephanie Solomon and I do domestic and intimate partner violence prevention for the Indiana state coalition. I work on a grant that is asking us to evaluate health equity in our state over a 5-year period and also assess programs like paid leave. I love qualitative data collection and the power of data to lift up a collective voice.
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Hi everyone!
I am Shavi (she/her). Currently, a third year PhD candidate in cell biology at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!!), emphasizing science education research. I’m based out of Athens, GA. My mixed methods based doctoral work is particular to STEM persistence and data equity comes into major play at my work!
Very excited to be a part of this community!
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Kim Ryan
Maryland, Calvert County for work and Anne Arundel for my home
Local Health Department
Maryland DOH
I have always been fascinated with finding true equity data and especially health equity data. As of today, this work is critical and I am thankful I found this forum!
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Hello! I’m Sarah MacNaughton. I’m a Physical Activity Specialist with the City of Hamilton. I work in Public Health Services in Chronic Disease Prevention. My primary focus in outdoor and community-based physical activity.
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Hello from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon 
. I am a newly hired (but not new to assessment or OHSU) assistant director of Teaching, Learning and Assessment at a medium sized health sciences campus. Since meaning making is important to how we see ourselves, it seems equally important that we understand the history behind categorizations that box us in.
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Hi there @Alex_Shuford and @Sarah.MacNaughton and @Ryangoskins it’s so wonderful to have you join us.
It is exciting to me to see how much cross-sector collaboration takes place on the forum. I am also so excited to see fellow Canadians! I hope you find some useful connections for all three of you in the public health space. Let me know if you have any specific questions or topics you’d like to see We All Count engage in.
Hi @Heather and all! I’m Mindy from Prince George, BC, Canada. I’m an Equity and Inclusion Leader and looking to really dive deeper into the data side. I’m also a Master’s student in Interdisciplinary Studies.
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Hello! I am Susan Stewart from Northern California. Our team works on addressing disproportionality by race/ethnicity in school districts. Much of the work the school districts do to address disproportionality is data driven and often it occurs without an equity lens. Eager to explore how we can help school districts think about data in new ways.
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Hi Alyssa!
I 100% feel your statement about data flowing from academia. I’m a researcher now, but used to be a dancer and performance artist. When I came to work here (and it’s still my soap box today), I perpetually expressed that the rest of the world has no idea what kind of work we’re doing. I don’t think we should just pat ourselves on the back, we need to be better about communicating about research, research outcomes, and community impact!
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Taryn Bogdewiecz (xe/xem or they/them); Denver, Colorado; Research Services Clinical Sciences Senior Professional (i.e. I do lots of things in all parts of human subjects research); University of Colorado Anschutz Campus
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community I advocate for data equity in many places for my community and for others who have historically been victims of medical science rather than included and understood. I’ve presented and participated in panels around LGBTQ+ communities in research and how to be aware of LGBTQ+ inclusive data collection and dissemination.
I’m also a part-time adaptive yoga instructor & ex- aerial dancer, art historian, and performance artist. I’ve been delighted to learn more about y’all here!
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Hi all! Lindsey Gay, they/them pronouns. I’m a data analyst with the Growth Organizing team at SEIU Local 925 in Seattle, WA. I’m several years into a career change (former higher ed faculty & administrator 
); now I work for the union that repp’d me at my former school! I grew up in a union household of Boeing machinists so now I find it very fulfilling to help folks improve their lives by unionizing their workplaces. I’m always learning and look forward to more seminars and sessions from the data lab!
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Hi there @lgay @TarynB @slstewart @mindy.gobbi Welcome 
It means so much to all of us to meet you!
I am really eager to hear how some of these data equity tools are working in the union setting and the education setting. Hopefully, we can break down some of those siloes you’re talking about.
Hello,
My name is Jacque Larrainzar. I work at the Department of Race and Equity in Oakland as a program Analyst and I am very interested in using data to measure the impacts of our work in eliminating racial disparities in access to services and programs. Looking forward to learning about your work and what is happening around the CENSUS.
Sandy Sheppard, Senior Evaluation Associate with CCNY, Inc. in Buffalo, NY. Looking forward to Tuesday!
Hello all!
My name is Lotus (she/her), hailing from Portland, OR, USA. I work for a nation-wide nonprofit called Help Me Grow (HMG). The work of HMG is to create a more connected early childhood system, reducing and eliminating barriers for families to get needs meet across all sectors of early childhood systems. I am the data lead for my team, and we are constantly evaluating our data to better understand gaps and barriers in the community so that we can find solutions. Of course, our data is also used for our funders and grants. I am really interested in finding more ways to think about the data we collect and have access to in order to better serve families.
hiii everyone! i’m jonathan gray (jwyg on most socials). i’m a researcher at based in London, UK. i’ve known @Heather and have been following the work of we all count for a long time - and realised i should join the community forum and introduce myself!
in terms of what brings me here and my interest in data equity, i’m cofounder of the Public Data Lab, an interdisciplinary research network which supports collective inquiry with and about digital data, digital methods and digital infrastructures.
i’m giving a talk later today as part of the Talking Data Equity series. this will be about Public Data Cultures (just published by Polity) which nurtures critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics.
in case of interest, i’m also co-editor with Liliana Bounegru of the open access Data Journalism Handbook which has chapters from researchers, journalists and others providing critical reflection and practical insights into this field.
it is great to be in touch with you all and much look forward to following discussions here! 