Artificial Intelligence (AI) is propelling the next economic revolution but readying the entire workforce for this change will be an uphill battle. While the United States continues to lead globally in AI innovation, there is also a failure to adequately foster the development and equitable inclusion of talent in STEM from historically underrepresented communities. This…Read more Confronting Healthcare Equity: NADPH’s Crusade To Eliminate US Healthcare Disparities
Social Justice
Yuri Bezmenov’s Ideological Subversion 2.0: Can America Survive this Pervasive Attempt to Topple the Nation?
This was initially published June 2020 on GritDaily. My colleague, Roxana Nasoi introduced the term Ideological Subversion. At the time the divisiveness in the US was accelerating. The murder of George Floyd and the Coronavirus fueled a fury and surfaced the underpinnings of this anger. It opened a pandora's box to the deception and manipulation…Read more Yuri Bezmenov’s Ideological Subversion 2.0: Can America Survive this Pervasive Attempt to Topple the Nation?
A Call For A Systemic Dismantling: These Women Refuse To Be Hidden Figures In The Development Of AI
Hidden Figures, written by Margot Lee Shetterly, tells the true story of African-American women mathematicians who worked at NASA in the early days of the U.S. space program. These women and their contributions were often overlooked, and they lived in a time when both racial and gender discrimination were visibly common. Despite this, these three women made…Read more A Call For A Systemic Dismantling: These Women Refuse To Be Hidden Figures In The Development Of AI
Mia Shah-Dand’s Race To Bridge The AI Gender Gap For A Human-Centred World
I first met Mia Shah-Dand, Founder of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE), in 2018. I was delving deeper into data privacy and on Twitter (at the time) she was addressing the failings of big tech as this AI hype cycle became more pronounced. The race to move fast and break things was emblematic of AI and the…Read more Mia Shah-Dand’s Race To Bridge The AI Gender Gap For A Human-Centred World
Karen Hao Empowers Journalists To Unravel AI’s Complexities And Impacts
I awoke at the early hours of 4:00 am EDT to attend the first, in the series of online courses for AI Spotlight series which was hosted by Karen Hao, contributor for The Atlantic, and former foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. Hao is known for her tremendous writing on AI, most notably, Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New…Read more Karen Hao Empowers Journalists To Unravel AI’s Complexities And Impacts
The Pain of Being Different: A Personal Perspective In The Aftermath Of The Paris Attacks
I hated being different. Growing up, I wanted to be the same as everyone else. I lived in a predominantly white city. I was the token "brown kid". I was looked at differently. I was teased because of the colour of my skin. It happened often enough that I came to expect it anytime there…Read more The Pain of Being Different: A Personal Perspective In The Aftermath Of The Paris Attacks
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