Show Notes
Equity Leadership Now! hosts conversations with equity-conscious leaders from pre-K through university settings who transform structures and strategies for educating students, particularly for those who are marginalized.
“We talk about epigenetics and how, you know, you can inherit trauma… I think you can also inherit intergenerational hope and resistance. And so I, very much, feel like I am my ancestors' wildest dreams. I'm part of that legacy, and knowing that they could dismantle that system and produce all of the Black joy and liberation that I'm able to be a part of today tells me that anything is possible.”
– Dr. Tiera Tanksley
In this episode of Equity Leadership Now, host Jabari Mahiri speaks with Professor Tiera Tanksley about anti-Blackness in AI and the importance of demanding more from tools and technology by “talking back.”
Dr. Tanksley shares her research, which examines the socio-emotional, mental health, and educational consequences of algorithmic racism in the lives and schooling experiences of Black youth. She advocates for abolitionist technologies that “re-encode anti-Black sentiments, or classist sentiments, that… provide more agency or protection for marginalized groups, that address problems identified by marginalized groups, that would lead towards more just and joyous outcomes.”
