We’re sunsetting our workshops
A message from our Steering Committee Nov 4 2025
We recently decided to sunset our data equity workshop workshops. The times are requiring new efforts from all of us.
We hope you appreciate this note and welcome feedback as we see what’s ahead.
Data Reframed is proud to have designed a robust data equity program that has hosted 16 workshop series (with over 250 participants) along with 50 short-form presentations and customized trainings. This has changed the way people and organizations impact the world with the data we use. But… it’s time to sunset our data equity workshops. Yep. We can say it's been a good ride.
Why?
So much has gone down in the six years since LA Tech4Good got formal nonprofit status and shifted our work to data equity. Now in 2025 the terrain has gotten especially acute, as we know. The Gaza genocide, ICE raids, ransacked DEI, repression, big tech & AI are all part of the bigger and more urgent context we’re working in. The world has changed and we feel the need to act in new ways.
We know that data is foundational in AI and that data equity has continued importance. But our small team won’t be taking on the need we've identified for an updated knowledge base. We know that many of you are in the trenches with AI implementation and we trust that you will bring our shared equity lens to that work.
What’s ahead for Data Reframed?
Over the next couple of months we will be making recent workshop curriculum and other valuable materials available on our Data Reframed website. Beyond that, we don’t know. We might continue a periodic newsletter, host a holiday party or two, or promote data projects focused on specific urgent issues.
The conversations have changed since we started this data justice journey; we are staying open to where they could go and want to be a part of them, but we frankly don’t know what the best way forward is.
What we do know
Community is a key to navigating these times – we hope that the connections that Data Reframed has facilitated with like-minded folks will sustain and strengthen you today and tomorrow. And we'd be happy to talk about how we might continue offer space to you and your initiatives.
The three of us will continue, in our own ways, to speak out with and for the oppressed, the vulnerable, and the voiceless, and pay attention to how technology intersects with our lives and politics.
A huge thank to everyone who made these workshops so successful, your advocacy for data equity, and your commitment to justice.
Our Steering Committee will be meeting in early December so please reach out with your thoughts or to stay in touch.
With heartfelt appreciation,
Yohance, Nardos & Karen
on behalf of Data Reframed