NYU D&T 15 🧭 Diversity@Tandon 💻 🎛️ 👀, Midterm Leftovers 🍲

Announcements: Class

Guest Speaker: Rose Ampuero, Tandon Assistant Dean of Student Affairs focused on diversity and social justice
- Strategic Plan for Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, and Equity
Midterm Leftovers:
- Questions for Live Speakers
- If you recorded your presentation and want me to check it before Tuesday, please DM me.
- Last Midterm Tips (based on a review of current drafts):
  - NYU Off-Campus: Accessing E-Resources (in D&T Books post)
  - Please attribute your image sources. Captions are helpful.
  - If you conduct a survey,
    - You still need 1 interview!
    - Please share the results (e.g. graphs, or grant me author permission) from your survey.
  - Don’t forget the Works Cited bibliography!
Resource of the day, Medical Bias Clips
Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random)
Introduction to Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity by Laura Harjo.
Diversity and Design and accessibility
- Universal Design resources @ NC State
- Chancey Fleet, @ NYPL: https://datasociety.net/people/fleet-chancey/
- Julia Kim, Library of Congress manager for BARD (Braille and Audio Reading)

Due Tuesday, 10/27:
- If you haven’t already, finish your midterm and all Phase 1 blog posts, which are due on 10/27 at 11:59 PM.
- Phase 2, Blog Post #2. Please
  - Discuss any questions/comments from Rose Ampuero’s visit today, and or from the document she share: NYU Tandon Strategic Plan for Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, and Equity
  - Discuss one or more of the following resources that involve staff and alumni of the NYU Prison Education Program. We will look at technology and criminal justice on Tuesday.
    - After Now, a short documentary about the NYU Prison Education Program (26 minutes)
    - Watch, listen or read this recent interview on Democracy Now featuring PEP alum Jose Diaz (about 15 min).
    - Read Rikers in Crisis: Interview with Jose Diaz (PEP alum who was arrested and sent to Rikers while NYC was the epicenter of the COVID crisis)
    - Watch last semester’s guest speakers Raechel Bosch and Jerry Leverette of the NYU Prison Education Program (about 90 minutes)
    - Explore the site of Ameelio, an app that facilitates message and media sharing between inmates and their loved ones. (Spring 2020 video forthcoming)

Events:
- 10/22: Race And The Vote: Centering Communities of Color during Elections by Race Forward
- 10/22: Leadership and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda by NYU Center for International Cooperation
- 10/24: NAACP Black Entrepreneurs Day
- Until 10/30: NYU Tisch Week of Community (with several tech-oriented events)
Write a post about the events above or any of the following:
- Analyze the Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit in the context of diversity and technology.
- TESA Collective makes board games for solidarity. Explore their s ite and blog, then discuss if you think they succeed in this mission.
- How does Google’s monopoly hurt you? Try these searches.(Washington Post)

NYU Opportunity for underrepresented students: Pipelines in Quantitative Aging Research Summer Program
NYU Makerspace $50 Mini-Grants
NYU Startup Sprints are two-week programs that teach and support aspiring NYU entrepreneur teams to transform their ideas and inventions into businesses. Applications due 11/16.
NYU Practicum in Fashion Business, Applications due 11/9
Election Volunteer Opportunities with Immigrant Justice Fund