S3 E5: Fighting the COVID Housing Crisis in New Jersey: An Interview with Daniel Joseph Wiley

Show Notes

Daniel Joseph Wiley is a housing justice advocate and artist in New Jersey, currently serving as the Managing Director of The HUUB in the City of Orange. In his previous role as Housing Justice Program and Policy Manager with the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) in Newark, Daniel was instrumental in bringing attention to the housing crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Daniel and the ICC helped to create Compassionate NJ, a coalition of grassroots organizations and policy experts that advocated for the People’s Bill to protect renters from evictions. A compromise version of the bill eventually became law in August 2021. In this episode, All In podcast host Miriam Castro talks to Daniel about his advocacy work, the importance of data, and the inclusion of people with lived experiences.

S3 E4: Dr. Ninez Ponce Discusses Data Visibility in the Nation's Largest State Health Survey

Show Notes

In this episode of the All In podcast, Host Miriam Castro is joined by the Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the principal investigator of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Dr. Ninez Ponce. As the principal investigator for CHIS, the nation's largest state health survey, Dr. Ponce discusses her influential role of advocating and creating processes of inclusion and representation in the survey that reaches over 20,000 people each year. Dr. Ponce discusses how she devised the rationale and implementation of Asian ethnic oversamples, and the cultural and linguistic adaptation of the survey in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. In this episode, Dr. Ponce shares anecdotes with Miriam from experiences she has had within her 20+ year career in survey-based research, and the fight for data that is representative of the reality of every population served.

S3 E3: Slowing Down to Progress Data-sharing Forward: An Interview with Dr. Sue Gallagher

Show Notes

In this episode of the All In podcast, Host Miriam Castro is joined by Dr. Sue Gallagher, the Chief Innovation Officer of the Children’s Services Council of Broward County. Dr. Gallagher discusses the importance of education, prioritizing community perspectives, and the legal sides of data-sharing agreements. Dr. Gallagher also detailed how her team “slowed down” during the pandemic to acknowledge their humanity and the trauma of the moment. This powerful and timely conversation touches on aligning equity throughout data-sharing, consistent community engagement, and the power of human connection in a time of social distancing.

S3 E2: Equitable Data-Sharing in Housing Justice: An Interview w/ Melissa Jones & Cristal Little

Show Notes

In this episode of the All In podcast, Host Miriam Castro is joined by Melissa Jones, the Executive Director of the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), and Cristal Little, a Vallejo Housing Justice Organizer for Urban Habitat. Jones and Little discuss educating their Bay Area communities about rent moratoriums and equitable state- funding. They also detailed the benefits of their data-sharing collaboration during COVID-19. This powerful and timely conversation touches on aligning equity throughout decision-making, consistent community engagement, and the power of women in leadership.

S3 E1: Mass Surveillance of Black Bodies & Anti-Racist Data-Sharing: An Interview with Tawana Petty

Show Notes

Tawana Petty is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet, and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy, data, digital privacy rights education, racial justice, and equity work. She is the National Organizing Director at Data 4 Black Lives (D4BL), and director of Petty Propolis, a Black woman-led artist incubator primarily focused on cultivating visionary resistance through poetry, literacy and literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives. Podcast Host Miriam Castro and Ms. Petty discuss how the push for biometric mass surveillance in Tawana's home city of Detroit has contributed to the dehumanization of Black bodies during COVID-19. Tawana shares with Miriam the process all allies must take from allyship to co-liberation to foster real social justice and what steps organizations can make to create anti-racist data-sharing efforts.