Community, Equity, Data & Information Lab – Building Community through Information and Data

in data & technology

Welcome

Dr. Jasmine Garland McKinney
to CEDI and UMD!

Dr. Garland McKinney joins CEDI as a postdoctoral researcher
focused on maternal health as part of the BELIEVE project.

Her research and clinical work focuses on maternal mental health,
intergenerational trauma, and relationships between
Black mothers and daughters

Photo of Jasmine L. Garland McKinney

At the Community Equity, Data & Information (CEDI) lab we study how information, data, and technology in public-facing institutions empower and marginalize people and communities, and work to build and improve systems that support a safer, healthier, and more just society.

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Until next time!

Until next time!

Post-birthday conference cake—we’re making it

Post-birthday conference cake—we’re making it a thing!

Spent the day cheering for our play cousins in the

Spent the day cheering for our play cousins in the Postnatal Patient Safety Learning Lab!

Presenting a poster at AHRQ: What does safety mean

Presenting a poster at AHRQ: What does safety mean to patients? Birthing parent definitions of safety in childbirth and postpartum care

We’re always excited to see our favorite people

We’re always excited to see our favorite people off zoom and out in the world. @tomianlibrarian found the amazing @ksheff1107 at APA!

Yesterday’s @american_heart HERN session poster,

Yesterday’s @american_heart HERN session poster, with @k.p.tully and @amstuebe. Best practices in addressing social needs for maternal health.

Lunching, learning, and planning at the AHA EQUATE

Lunching, learning, and planning at the AHA EQUATE Maternal health meeting.

Fresh publication! Some pieces take a while to mak

Fresh publication! Some pieces take a while to make it out into the world but we’re happy when they do!

In this month’s #Library Quarterly:

"Maybe She's Just Strict to
Everybody": Race, Belonging, and Surveillance in the Library

By Amelia Gibson and Sandra Hughes Hassell

Despite the public and professional perception that #libraries promote learning and community, mounting evidence suggests that public and school libraries are often unwelcoming places for youth who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Using data from eight focus groups with 50 BIPOC youths ages 12–18, we discovered varying degrees of belonging in public and school libraries. We also found that behavioral norms, policies, and frameworks of social belonging in libraries result in many BIPOC youths rejecting or being excluded from library spaces. These frameworks and policies are enforced through a system of surveillance and policing that many youths accept as necessary to create quiet library spaces. This combination of social and institutional practices sets the stage for persistent marginalization of many BIPOC youths and teaches them to accept and replicate social inequities.

Choosing textiles for the new lab space with Vy, O

Choosing textiles for the new lab space with Vy, Olu, Chris, Cece, and our two tween design consultants (not pictured, offscreen). A party. Amazing. Good times. 😄

This quote by Frederick Douglass challenges us to

This quote by Frederick Douglass challenges us to think about safety, progress, and power every time we walk into the building.

“Until it shall be safe to leave the lamb in the hold of the lion, the laborer in the power of the capitalist, the poor in the hands of the rich, it will not be safe to leave a newly emancipated people completely in the power of their former masters, especially when such masters have not ceased to be such from enlightened moral convictions but by irresistible force."

Walking out the at the end of this (long) week, it affirms our efforts to make the world safer for our communities. Have a wonderful weekend!

We had a wonderful weekend last Friday and Saturda

We had a wonderful weekend last Friday and Saturday with the #p3equatenetwork #believebirth team! It was great meeting new folks, catching up with old friends to plan, share, and do this vitally important work. #blackmamasmatter #maternalhealthinnovation

Accepted a #believebirth award on behalf of Sam, o

Accepted a #believebirth award on behalf of Sam, our S23 trainee, who has spent HOURS planning, designing, collecting, and cleaning data this spring. See you in the fall!

Thanks to everyone for reading, listening to, and

Thanks to everyone for reading, listening to, and reacting to birthing people’s stories at the #believebirth gala.

Prepping for the Believe in Black Joy Gala this we

Prepping for the Believe in Black Joy Gala this weekend! #believebirth

Happy holidays from the 4th trimester team.

Happy holidays from the 4th trimester team.

If you see me staring longingly through the door o

If you see me staring longingly through the door of our new lab space, just step around me. Just waiting for the renovations to be done. 😂

Spent Friday at Johns Hopkins talking maternal hea

Spent Friday at Johns Hopkins talking maternal health, safety, and info/data practices at the Achieving Heath Equity in a World of Data conference. #achievinghealthequity22

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