Podcast Description “When I think about the role of technical systems…the inequity becomes even more encoded, subtle and it may seem like it’s operating where race is not explicit…The designers are…

Podcast Description “The Poor People’s Human Economic Rights Campaign…the way they define poverty is: if at any point you have lacked access to one of your basic economic human rights.”Virginia Eub…

Podcast Description “I’ll say it again: it is the same thing and it is that thing that we simply refuse to talk about. Whether we’re talking about elections or we’re talking about technology. And t…

Podcast Description Sara Wachter-Boettcher is the principal of Rare Union, a digital product and content strategy consultancy based in Philadelphia, and the co-host No, You Go, a podcast about livi…

Podcast Description “When you are used to being dominant, equality looks like a loss.”Mel Stanfill is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Texts and Technology and Games and Interacti…

Podcast Description “I feel that tech is capable of change. It’s still a relatively young sector. The young men who built this industry…tended to be people who themselves were not treated that well…

Podcast Description “The larger point is that experience at-scale does change culture, because experience at-scale IS culture.”Kate O’Neill is founder and Chief Tech Humanist of KO Insights, a thou…

Podcast Description “Twitter can be a cesspool sometimes. And you have people who are constantly invoking their first amendment rights. This is not the government. You do not have first amendment r…

Podcast Description Shireen Mitchell is an Internet pioneer and serial founder who was born and raised in the projects of New York City, playing video games before they could be played on televisio…

Podcast Description “No matter what we build as human beings, we’re building it from human perspective.”Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD researcher at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Te…

Podcast Description “[Venture capitalists] are people who by definition have said: my only goal is to make money for myself. But what we’ve done is allowed those people and that mentality to become…

Podcast Description “I’m actually working on a book right now…I’m calling it ‘From Barbecue Beckys to Pink Pussy Hats’ – calling out white women and white feminists, because we white women ha…

Podcast Description “I honestly think that fairness just in terms of everybody having the same or some equal thing. I don’t think that’s realistic and I don’t think we’ll ever get there. I don’t th…

Podcast Description “What I’ve realized is that after three years we have made absolutely no dent on this issue at all. What’s happened instead is that these companies are relying on our free labor…

Podcast Description “When I go in and I’m working with companies, I tell them you have got to design your systems, your culture, your norms, your communication for the most marginalized person. If …

Podcast Description “I want every US presidential candidate…to give me a list of what they are going to in order to address institutionalized racism. I want to know what regulations, I want to know…

Podcast Description “We can’t talk about what’s broken with education and coding education in the bootcamp system without zooming out to look at the larger context of our educational system. Why is…

Podcast Description “Up until this point I had been like the model minority….And then all of a sudden THIS model minority turns around and she thinks Islam is feminist? That she’s proud of this? Th…

Podcast Description “When your rights are being dismantled and destroyed, and your personhood isn’t respected, you shouldn’t be civil. You should cause a scene.”Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, prof…

Podcast Description “Black people are constantly lookin’ back at who they were, while constantly trying to look forward while navigating this fuckery that is white supremacy”André Brock is an assoc…

Podcast Description “‘And now I will tell you how to make Google slightly less bad without ever actually dismantling surveillance capitalism.’ This kind of sensible centrist nice kind of middle age…

Podcast Description “You will feel more comfortable to make decisions about Siri and Alexa and driverless cars…I wonder how AI is changing us and also feel empowered to ask questions, because right…

Podcast Description “I get to teach some students who are closer to the engineering side of things and over the years I’ve certainly taught quite a few of them. And when they talk about that they w…