Start Your Year With Data Equity | Equity in Data Community of Practice

In our recent Community of Practice session, we focused on something many of you have asked for: frameworks for thinking about equity in data.

This conversation introduced several high-level frameworks that help us ask better questions about power, accountability, and community impact in our data work. We explored how power shapes what data gets collected and how it’s used, using ideas from Data Feminism and Patricia Hill Collins’ matrix of domination as a lens. We also dug into Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), frameworks that challenge extractive, deficit-focused data practices. These frameworks offer us a new way to think about even our small, everyday data projects, by centering shared power, lived expertise, and community strengths.

If you happened to miss this session, you can watch the full session recording below!

While not included in the video, we also had a whiteboard that attendees filled out throughout the presentation to reflect on how the framework ties back to their work and what questions they have about the framework. At the end, we voted on which framework attendees particularly wanted to learn more about. CBPR was the winner and will therefore be a prioritized future community of practice session topic!