QSIDE partners with mission-driven non-profit and corporate
partners to provide data science analysis and research capacity. If
you are struggling to find, procure, clean, analyze, or use data in your
social justice work, we can help. Please contact COO Jude Higdon,
jude@qsideinstitute.org, to discuss partnership opportunities to help
power your social justice work using cutting edge data techniques.
Previous/current partnerships:
QSIDE provided the data analysis for LifeWTR’s LifeUnseen project, illuminating the lack of diversity and representation in four critical areas of popular art: high fashion, art, popular music, and popular film.
We partnered with the National Gallery of Art as part of their 2019 Hackathon to determine how diverse the artists who were put on display in their galleries were.
QSIDE is partnering with RedCompass Labs to build algorithms to identify and disrupt Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.
QSIDE partnered with George Mason University to analyze and, when gaps were identified, address DEI representation in the STEM disciplines at the University.
As part of our active efforts to utilize the California Racial Justice Act (RJA), QSIDE has partnered with the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office to use data science to help overturn sentences predicated on racial bias.
Continuing our work to utilize the RJA, QSIDE has partnered with the Office of the State Public Defender to expand our reach, and develop a tool to help families and potential claimants evaluate whether they meet the requirements of the RJA.
QSIDE and the Center for Policing Equity are collaborating to build community and facilitate information sharing among organizations working on the California Racial Justice Act, with the goal of streamlining efforts and advancing research and advocacy in this space.
We created a pop-up analysis team to quickly analyze data for the Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to support an amicus brief that they submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
Partnering with MSRI and the National Math Festival, we developed a high school social justice data science curricular module, and then used it to hold the first ever high school Datathon4Justice.
We worked as part of a working group to develop the Action to Catalyze Technology (ACT) Report, a call to action for CEOs in high tech to commit to diversifying the industry.
As part of the Walmart Foundation work to disrupt the school-prison nexus, we worked with the USC Race and Equity Center to analyze data and target interventions for highest impact.
We partnered with Persevere Now and the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice to use data to identify opportunity youth and implement high-impact programs to disrupt the school-prison nexus.
We are currently working with the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice to analyze disparities among death row inmates.
We are also currently working with the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice and Jobs for the Future to create a comprehensive analysis of inclusive hiring to identify which programs have the biggest impact in meaningful employment and recidivism.
In collaboration with ACT NOW! we helped reimagine community safety in seven communities across the country as part of a broader program to create more equitable community safety models.
In partnership with The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention we worked to highlight bias in how the media currently reports gun violence.
We partnered with Scrutinize and the NYU Law School Zimroth Center to use data to identify sentencing disparities in New York City judges and their following impact.
