Solving America’s race problem one byte at a time
Today, John is an assistant professor of marketing and a behavioral data scientist at American University. That box has been replaced by supercomputers, the names on pieces of paper replaced by petabytes of demographic data.What she’s working on now — projects such as discerning the impact of policing on mobility in Black communities and measuring how bias affects decision-making and behavior — could rock this country the way that Halloween box rocked her junior high.John attended D.C.
John does not recall having wealthy friends, just culturally rich Black communities. Her father was a Washington Post distributor; her mother got a job in the federal government right out of high school. They were not wealthy. But even after the divorce, they made sure their daughter had access to academic enrichment activities while showering her with love.The Chetty study used data similar to the kind John uses in her research.
This is where John comes in. She has drawn on Chetty’s open-source raw data before. And she knows how to measure the impact of race. Not that she needs a computer to do that.“Throughout my career, I’ve always had to find community with people who look like me, who are supportive and understand that we live in a society where bias has a tremendous impact on our life outcomes,” she said.
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