Yeshi

Visionary | Founder & Executive Director of @data4blacklives |

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

Cleveland! Looking forward to tomorrow. https://t.co/jzgF6yE2y0

[Just Equations @JUST_Equations]

“We can’t just go for the low hanging fruit; we have to go to the root of the tree” when we’re addressing education inequity. @YESHICAN at #TMO2024

[Just Equations @JUST_Equations]

@YESHICAN at #TMO2024. At @Data4BlackLives we believe that math should be used as a tool for social change instead of a weapon for political oppression. 1/2

[Just Equations @JUST_Equations]

"Math education is one of the most important and urgent civil rights battles of our time."

-- @YESHICAN speaking now at #TMO24

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

@curtisbunn @Data4BlackLives H Curtis! I would be honored. https://t.co/WdnfENXUTg

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

Venue change for tonight’s Keynote:

Malcom X & Dr Betty Shabazz
Memorial and Education Center
3940 Broadway, #2 New York, NY 10032

We stand with students and community in boycotting Columbia University and its affiliates.

And look forward to sharing this sacred space with you all tonight.

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

New York City! This Friday at @BarnardCollege

My first public keynote in NYC in a little while. Will be followed by a special Decompress performance.

I hope to see you there!

https://t.co/w0xrJ9oq8l

[Rahul B (@[email protected]) @rahulbot]

Data Activism talk by @YESHICAN Feb 23 in NYC
https://t.co/d0AaJ48Ajf

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

Best beach reading: data broker shareholder reports.

#AbolishBigData

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

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[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

We continue to demand the dismantling of structures that put the power of data into the hands of a few. @Data4BlackLives

#AbolishBigData

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

Thank you @Philanthropy for recognizing me as one of 33 leaders standing up to Big Tech in the age of AI!

Honored to be amongst such an esteemed and brilliant crew.

https://t.co/8ZatxPKSox

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

@NatlParkService Now more than ever we need spaces to Decompress and I'm super excited to visit as many parks as I can.

(A Great Blue Heron along Ahinga Trail in @EvergladesNPS

In Native American traditions, these birds represent self-determination and the ability to progress and evolve.)

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

Shes official @NatlParkService.

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

77% of National Park Visitors are white. Though people of color make up 42% of the country - only 23% visit National Parks.
@NatlParkService

In 2018, only 6% of visitors identified as Black.

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

@NatlParkService The idea that Black people & POC don't like the outdoors was a myth used to keep @NatlParkService exclusive.

As per it's early founders eugenicists and elitist wishes.

Here is some great data (with historical context!)
https://t.co/DpDAuuuD4C

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

@LilKim @themarcjacobs Congrats!!!

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

So beautiful ❤️‍🔥

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

The idea that people have power does give us hope but also immense responsibility.

This is an autonomy that only we cant give away. Or let them take.

The aliens and AI… and those behind them.

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

Artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial sentience, regardless of their existence it seems like another attempt for us as humans to grasp for an exit door to responsibility for the world we’ve created.

[Yeshi @YESHICAN]

I am still optimistic enough to believe in people power.

The power of everyday people to change the material conditions (and immaterial) that we are living in.

Not people as the sum of user generated content.