Martha Staid

Senior Director of Programs at @dgateway. Working on #datause for development. Iced coffee fiend. Opinions just mine. IDIC.

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

Just a friendly reminder that if you're neurodivergent and work in tech we are actively hiring for a lot of roles at https://t.co/Azg6yHhiaB

I'm Autistic and ADHD and have been promoted to run my own team focusing on developer experience.

There's room here to grow as ND people.

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

This is heartbreaking. He truly set the bar for refusing to accept the systems and worldviews that write off people as too poor or too sick to be worth helping. Never accepting how the world worked, in favor of making it work better. We could all learn so much from his example.

[Partners In Health @PIH]

Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.

Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.

1/🧵

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

We need to do so much more for Covid vaccine equity: globally and also within the US for children under 5, who still can’t access the proven vaccines. Got a sec? Please sign this petition by @ImmunizeUnder5s asking the FDA to cut the red tape https://t.co/P3sixFc7ED

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

It is such a beautiful and relieving thing to start to even think of masks and tests not as private commodities of consumers, but as a common good everyone has a right to which can be provided freely. It is psychically freeing to be outside of market thinking, even a little.

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

We need to do so much more for Covid vaccine equity: globally and also within the US for children under 5, who still can’t access the proven vaccines. Got a sec? Please sign this petition by @ImmunizeUnder5s asking the FDA to cut the red tape https://t.co/P3sixFc7ED

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

@maireadsmst @AStrangeObject @DeepVellum I think this is worthy of an OMG OMG OMG.

[Alena Stern @AlenaStern]

Very excited to share the ✨new and improved✨ @urbaninstitute Spatial Equity Data Tool launched today! The tool allows users to upload data and quickly assess geographic and demographic disparities.

So what's new? A thread:

https://t.co/PFJVWZl9gH

[Sarah Orton-Vipond @SarahEOV]

🚨Job alert! Grant and Proposal Writer!

@DGateway is looking for an experienced, detail-oriented, team player to work on proposals and business development.

🌎Washington, DC or Remote (US)
💵 $65-$75k (+ benefits)
📅 Oct. 8th
https://t.co/gks3qnvsEl

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

Legitimately SO excited to be a judge for this year's Emory Global Health/GA Tech hackathon. #bornforthis

[Emory Global Health Institute @emoryghi]

EGHI @GeorgiaTech Disaster Hack has student teams compete to solve problems caused by extreme weather and natural disasters. Winners receive cash prizes and a chance to take their solution to market through @gtcreatex. https://t.co/eSkEPS5Kgt

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

Love this. Yes.

Indigenous Knowledge Is The Missing Piece In Disaster Risk Reduction https://t.co/Ul6ijROcBa

[ᴇʀɴ 🇵🇸 @heyernold]

Your state already has its own Stacey Abrams. Every state does.

Find them. Listen to them. Trust them. Invest in them. Follow their lead.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Slack: Ditch the inbox!

*all teams migrate away from email as communication*

Slack: *goes down*

Me: you son of a gun.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Stacy Abrams had the governorship of Georgia stolen from her by a corrupt Secretary of State who abused his office to suppress the vote and hand himself the election

What did she do?

She rolled up her sleeves, registered *800,000* new voters and is about to flip her state blue.

[Development Gateway: An IREX Venture @DGateway]

We’re pleased to announce our new Development Gateway website! Thanks to @FriendlyDC, this refresh helps to show our work, recognize our team & more clearly explain what DG does. Follow along as we highlight what we’re most excited about on the new site!⤵️ https://t.co/7BkdTNQqXs

[Sarah Orton-Vipond @SarahEOV]

This comes down to humility in your information needs. Decisions and functions at each level require different data. Lack of understanding of what data are actually *needed* leads to a reporting/collection burden that all too often falls on the program-level

[Martha Staid @MarthaStaid]

Call me an econ nerd, but this is such a compelling way to think about this. The social ills from social media are because the industry pushes all the nasty externalities onto society. We absorb it so they don't have to.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Facebook is again getting an eminently justified wave of bad publicity today. It deserves every bit. It is the prime incubator racist, quasi-fascist propaganda, state-run psyops operations and more. But to really understand the problem it is important to understand the ...

[Dr Aisha Ahmad @ProfAishaAhmad]

The 6 month mark in any sustained crisis is always difficult. We have all adjusted to this "new normal", but might now feel like we're running out of steam. Yet, at best, we are only 1/3 the way through this marathon. How can we keep going? THREAD /x

[Development Gateway: An IREX Venture @DGateway]

What factors actually impact women in #mining in Guinea? DG’s recent assessment & @WimGuinee’s pilot index provides stakeholders w/evidence to implement sustainable solutions for improving women’s conditions in the industrial & artisanal mining industry. https://t.co/Z3rIdDfiti