The Data Dilemma: How Artificial Intelligence Uses Personal Data to Profit and Polarize America with Joycelyn Tate, JD, SAIS '05 (Cert)

Joycelyn Tate

Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title:  The Data Dilemma: How Artificial Intelligence Uses Personal Data to Profit and Polarize America 

Instructor:  Joycelyn Tate, JD, SAIS '05

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February 20, 2025 - Februaru 27, 2025 (2 Sessions) 

Thursday,  7:00PM ET - 8:30PM ET 

Virtual via Zoom 

 

 

Course Description: This course will explain how companies use complex algorithms and artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of personal data to target products and services to consumers. This course will also review how these same algorithms are fueling increased polarization in the U.S. and being used by industries and institutions to make decisions about economic, employment and other opportunities that discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and other characteristics.

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ABOUT Joycelyn Tate, JD, SAIS '05 (CERT)

Joycelyn Tate is a leading expert on digital equity with a record of developing digital equity advocacy strategies to advance racial and gender equity, civil rights, and social justice in the use of, access to, and ownership of technology. As the founder and CEO of TS Strategies, Joycelyn advises senior executives of organizations on digital equity policy issues and executes public policy advocacy strategies to advance digital equity. She is also the co-founder of Make Innovative Technology for Change (MakeIT4Change) Innovation Hub, a nonprofit organization that empowers youth and adults to create technology for social change.

Joycelyn’s public service includes appointments to serve on the Communications Equity and Diversity Council at the Federal Communications Commission and as a board member of the Universal Service Administrative Company, where she managed the administration of the Universal Service Fund, a $10 billion dollar fund that provides access to affordable telecommunications and broadband services to rural, remote, and underserved communities across the country. She also served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nation’s World Conference on International Telecommunications.

Joycelyn earned a Bachelor of Arts from Howard University, a Juris Doctor from Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, a graduate certificate of specialization from the Law and Technology Institute at the Columbus School of Law, and a graduate certificate in international studies from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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 Event Date
Starts:
Thursday, February 20, 2025
7:00pm EST

Ends:
Thursday, February 27, 2025
8:30pm EST

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