Announcements: Class

• Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed.
• NYU Accommodations for Student Participation in Election Activities 
• Phase 2 Suggestions
• Note on NYU events and extra credit opportunities
• CMD-IT Graduate School Fair
• Spring Course: Making & Manufacturing as Sociocultural Practice

Agenda (may be re-ordered to work with guest speaker’s schedule)

• Guest Speaker: Julie Ciccolini, NACDL Full Disclosure Project
• Resource of the day, Medical Bias Clips
• Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random)
• 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)
• If there’s time: Kibera News Network channel breakouts

Assignments

• Due Thursday, 10/29: 
  • If you haven’t already, finish your midterm and all Phase 1 blog posts, which are due TONIGHT.
  • To prepare for Thursday, watch one short video from the Kibera News Network channel.
  • Phase 2, Blog Post #3. Please discuss Julie Ciccolini’s presentation of the NACDL Full Disclosure Project (fulldisclosure@nacdl.org). What does this project have to do with diversity? What does it have to do with technology? Please take a look at one or more of the links mentioned during the presentation:
    • CAPSTAT: Civil Rights Lawsuit/Allegation Data (NYC)
    • PACER.uscourts.gov case locator system (Federal)
    • Citizens Police Data Project (Chicago)
    • NYC Citizens Civil Review Board (CCRB) Youth Advisory Council, for more CCRB links see the Extra Credit doc
    • NY Civil Liberties Union statement on repeal of Law Section 50-A (police data)

Announcements + Extra Credit

• Events: 
  • 10/27 @ 6:00: ON AND BEYOND THE STAGE: PRACTICING DISABILITY ACCESS, AESTHETICS, & TECH (Harvard Dance)
  • 10/29 @ 5:30: What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World (discussion of new book on design, disability, and activism)
  • Until 10/30: NYU Tisch Week of Community (with several tech-oriented events)
  • This and next week: a number of tech-related talks through the New York Southeast Asia Network
  • 11/4-11/6: CMD-IT Grad School Fair
• Write a post about the events above or any of the following:
  • College Students Aren’t on Campus. Their Missing Votes Could Make a Difference. (New York Times)
  • ENERGY DEMOCRACY: Honoring the Past and Investing in a New Energy Economy (Race Forward)

Opportunities

• Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room, a fellowship program for underrepresented writers in children’s media, will be available next month, in mid-November. www.sesamewritersroom.org
• 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