AlterConf Chicago 2017
who it's for
diversity and inclusion practitioners, people operations and recruiters, community organizers and activists, accessibility specialists, engineering managers, product managers working on civic data, open data and civic tech practitioners
topics
employee resource group strategy; code of conduct development; skills-based hiring practices; name validation systems; surveillance, race, and disability; open data for police reform; accessibility by design; demystifying technology for publics; career wellbeing and boundaries; food access and workplace culture; preserving and forgetting trauma
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Employee Resource Groups and You... | Alexandra Dobkin | 13m |
Employee resource groups at Bloomberg claim measurable impact: 13% participation in the Women's Community, cross-team Tech Talks and mentorship, and… | ||
| Hustle and Flow: Real talk on Making it | Tanya C Depass | 23m |
Argues that “overnight success” is a lie and that visible people of color pay extra costs: sustained hustle, delegitimization, slurs and sustained harassment… | ||
| Deconstructing the Code of Conduct | Safia Abdalla | 13m |
Argues that Codes of Conduct actually stop harassment not cultural misunderstandings and rebuts common excuses like free speech or “we’re just friends.”… | ||
| Why the Workforce Needs Skills-Based Hiring | Jonny Vu | 23m |
The claim is clear: skills-based hiring increases diversity and fills tech roles faster by testing what candidates can actually do instead of where they went… | ||
| Eating in Tech... | Stephanie Slattery | 25m |
Claims that tech’s food culture actively excludes people with restrictive eating (about a dozen foods tolerated by this person) and that common practices —… | ||
| What's in a Name (Validation)? | Carly Ho | 13m |
Forms reject real names by enforcing rules like „minimum three characters” and Latin-only letters and that breaks people whether or not systems can be changed… | ||
| Surveillance state, race, and disability | Mikki Kendall | 20m |
Shows evidence that cell phones overturn police falsehoods, citing Walter Scott cell-phone video exposes planted evidence and that body cameras reduce civility… | ||
| People You May Want to Forget | Theresa Stewart | 07m |
Facebook Messenger rolls out call log and SMS integration that scans years of calls and texts and then surfaces people to message; the algorithm recommends a… | ||
| Disabled by Design; Designed by Choice | Sharlene King | 19m |
Design choices create barriers: the social model reframes disability as encountering an obstacle, not individual failure. Concrete examples include a game (A… | ||
| How Can Open Data Help Facilitate Police Reform | Gbenga Ajilore | 08m |
Open data analysis claims specific, testable findings: using the Police Data Initiative links to about 130 agencies and a Chicago complaints dataset… | ||
| Why it's Essential to Demystify Technology | Saumya Pandey | 16m |
Argues that demystifying technology raises diversity by turning a stereotyped “black screen” image into everyday uses and roles, cites an estimated one million… | ||
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