Douglass Faculty Fellows

Explore feminist approaches to data through the intersections of coding and fiber arts like weaving, crocheting, and knitting. A collaboration between the RAGE Lab and Douglass, DataCraft is entering its second year. Last year, students crocheted large-scale versions of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits, hand-drawn visualizations first exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The project continues to examine how technology and fiber craft can be interwoven to spark new ways of understanding data.

Project REVEAL was created in response to threats of online information erasure, focusing on reproductive health data, including abortion, gestational health, and maternal mortality. A collaboration between the RAGE Lab and Douglass, the project is now in its third year, anchored by a free online archive at projectreveal.org. Building on last year's website launch, the project continues expanding its resources and aims to develop a live dashboard tracking reproductive health legislation across the United States.

Promotoras, or Latina community health workers, are trusted sources of health information and can play a key role in combating misinformation online. Students working with Dr. Rivera help develop and adapt digital health literacy training materials for promotoras in New Brunswick, NJ, and Comerío, Puerto Rico. Now in its third year, the project is advancing from community needs assessment to creating, translating, and evaluating educational resources in English and Spanish.

The Gender & Arts Living-Learning Community is designed to bring arts education to students in a range of fields who have varied experience, training, and skill levels. During a year-long experience, students learn about representations of gender in art, explore their creativity, work with artists, gain hands-on experience, and exhibit artwork in the Spring!