Ai for People

Mutale Nkonde is the founding CEO of AI For the People (AFP) a non profit communications agency. I saw her present during the Eyebeam Conference 2021

This initiative was born out of the idea of shaping Artificial Intelligent technology around human and societal needs. We believe that technology should respect the anthropocentric principle. It should be at the service of people, not vice-versa. In order to foster this idea, we need to narrow the gap between civil society and technical experts. This gap is one in knowledge, in action and in tools for change. 

Our mission is to learn, pose questions and take initiative on how Artificial Intelligent technology can be used for the social good. Our strategy is to conduct impact analysis, projects and democratic policies that act at the crossing of Artificial Intelligence and society.

Ethical Ai

AI Ethical Principles are guidelines put forward by policy-makers that can, in the words of Turilli, act ‘as abstractions, as normative constraints on the do’s and don’ts of algorithmic use in society’ (2007). Examples of this are manifold; from fairness to explicability, robustness, privacy, security, justice, autonomy.

Ideally, these guidelines stand as evidence of the cardinal ethical values we want AI systems to reflect. Practically, several published guidelines have also shown evidence of an emerging consensus among policy-makers.

Anya Kemenetz

Learning, Freedom and the Web, The Edupunks’ Guide, and the Edupunks’ Atlas are her free web projects about self-directed, web-enabled learning. Anya is an education correspondent for NPR. Her team’s blog is at NPR.org/ed. Previously she covered technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine.

She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post and won 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards from the Education Writers Association. NPR Ed won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association.

The Edupunk’s Guide: To DIY Credential

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Learning Freedom and the Web: Ebook

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

BEAM

Black Emotional And Mental Health Collective

BEAM is a national training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.

Black Masculinity (Re)imagined

Black Masculinity Reimagined is a community-building initiative that addresses the intersection of male socialization, mental health, and community violence. This intervention does this by training and working with Black men, boys, and masculine individuals to…

Toolkits & Education

On this page, you will find graphics, videos, and toolkits designed to be shared for educational purposes.

Caroline Woolard

Caroline Woolard (b.1984) is an American artist who, in making her art, becomes an economic critic, social justice facilitator, media maker, and sculptor. Since the financial crisis of 2007-8, Woolard has catalyzed barter communities, minted local currencies, founded an arts-policy think tank, and created sculptural interventions in office spaces. Woolard has inspired a generation of artists who wish to create self-organized, collaborative, online platforms alongside sculptural objects and installations.

Her work has been commissioned by and exhibited in major national and international museums including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and Creative Time. Woolard’s work has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS. She was the 2018–20 inaugural Walentas Fellow at Moore College of Art and Design and the inaugural 2019–20 Artist in Residence for INDEX at the Rose Museum, and a 2020-2021 Fellow at the Center for Cultural Innovation.

A New Student Questionnaire:

What is your preferred pronoun? What experience do you have with the topics and techniques you image we will cover in this course? Can I tag you in social media? What are your access needs? Do you have experience with self-directed work? These are the sorts of questions I ask to get to know the students I am working with. I tailor activities based upon their feedback. I hand this form out on the first day and have students fill it out a bit in class, and then finish it for homework.

A Critique Menu for Students:

A "menu" of options for students and teachers who wish to discuss and select individually appropriate structures for critique. Developed in 2016 for an MFA Fine Arts critique course at SVA by Caroline Woolard.

2 Hour Workshop Template:

For teachers to think through a 2-hour workshop.

Ten Leaps: A Lexicon for Education (draft):

By Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Designed by Emilio Martinez Poppe. This draft edition of Ten Leaps: A Lexicon for Art Education was printed on January 5, 2017 by Patrick Kiley of Publication Studio for the occasion of an exhibition called The Visible Hand, curated by David Borgonjon at the CUE Foundation in New York City. This is a condensed version of a larger work in progress which will be completed by July 2017. This book contains samples of the writing, thinking, illustrations, practices, and exercises as an early entry point to our process. We hope readers will grasp the scope of the project and be inspired to seek it out in its finished form in the summer of this year.

Making & Being: Full Book

Making and Being offers a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. Authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two visual arts educators, share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes. This hands-on guide includes activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for artists and art educators today. Making and Being is a book, a series of videos, a deck of cards, and an interactive website with freely downloadable content.

dRworks Book

​Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks) is
​pleased to offer our workbook and other resources.
We hope you find the material here useful
to you, your organization, and your community.

​This web-based workbook was originally designed to support the
​Dismantling Racism Works 2-day basic workshop.
The workbook is now offered as a resource to the community.
If you would, please continue to credit dRworks if and when you use our material. Thank you. This web-based workbook is resource dense, so for best results, use a computer to view and use it.

Actions Tools

This page includes the following tools: Giving Feedback, information about the role of Change Teams and Caucuses in race equity work, race equity principles for taking action, and a race equity tool for organizations in developing explicit goals.

Analysis Tools

This page includes: Dynamics of Denial and Resistance, Effective Problem Solving, Race Equity Stages, How a Movement is Built, Barriers and Bridges Principles.

Internalizations

Racism not only impacts us personally, culturally, and institutionally.
Racism also operates on us mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
When racism targets us, we internalize that targeting; when racism benefits us, we internalize that privileging. This page investigates how internalized racism operates.

Racism Defined

​The definition of racism offered here is grounded in Critical Race Theory a movement started in the 1970s by activists and scholars committed to the study and transformation of traditional relationships of race to racism and power. CRT was initially grounded in the law and has since expanded to other fields. CRT also has an activist dimension because it not only tries to understand our situation but to change it. The basic beliefs of CRT are…

Resources

(This is a goldmine) Resources on this page are organized as follows:
​Toolkits, For Parents and Teachers, Organizing and Training, Books/Videos/Articles.

(I found this Tribal Equity Toolkit especially interesting but I’m suspicious of the authors)

White Supremacy Culture

What it is and how it manifests.

HEAL

The HEAL Food Alliance was born out of the knowledge that no single individual, organization, or sector can transform systems in isolation. We believe that true transformation requires diverse skills, roles, and resources— and, it requires organizing together for real change.

After an extensive landscape assessment and series of strategy conversations led by HEAL’s founding director, the alliance was born, anchored by the Food Chain Workers Alliance, the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, Real Food Generation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. These anchor organizations engaged leaders with experience and expertise in co-crafting the 10-plank “Platform for Real Food”, and in 2017 HEAL launched publicly with this platform as our strategic compass.

Webinars & Trainings

Webinars:

How BIPOC Communities are Cultivating Crisis-Proof Food Systems

HEAL's School of Political Leadership Informational Webinar

Sowing the Seeds of Liberation

Building a Food System That Values Workers

How Navajo Nation's SoPL leaders advocate, organize and farm during COVID-19

What's Up With Conaway's Dirty Farm Bill?

Overcoming Tyson's Stranglehold: Organizing for Workers, Families & Communities

The following trainings are available to our members and allies. For login details, email info@healfoodalliance.org

• Elections 2020: What's Food & Agriculture Got to Do With It?

• The Race Class Narrative: A messaging framework to engage the base, persuade the middle, & alienate the opposition

• Solidarity Actions and Coordinated Social Media Strategy

• Writing OpEds to Make a Difference

• Reporter Relations: Building Lasting Relationships with Journalists

• Think Safe! Digital Security for Organizers & Organizations

SURJ

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.

Characteristics of White Supremacy

From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001

SURJ Families: Multi-Generational Organizing Spaces TOOLKIT

SURJ Families is a working group within SURJ, a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice that grew out of a need to create space to engage families, caregivers and elders into our work for racial justice.

As a team, we focus on organizing multi-generational spaces that are inclusive and accommodating for people of all ages, from kids to elders. We believe there is power in parents, caregivers and our youth showing up to break white silence as we strive to create a just and inclusive society for our future generations. The purpose of SURJ Families is to help SURJ chapters and affiliates to move towards multi-generational spaces and actions to help broaden our membership. We are available to help coach groups, develop toolkits and action kits that are focused on multi-generational spaces, uplift resources that are geared towards families and caregivers, and help find space in the already flowing movement for Black Lives Matter for families and caregivers.

Resources

(Another goldmine) Resources on this page are organized as follows:
Designing a Political Education session, Racism 101, White Privilege, White Feminism, White Nationalism