February 10-14, 2025, marks the annual international celebration of Love Data Week!
This year the theme of Love Data Week is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” Who owns data? Who uses data?
Join us in the Library this week as we talk about ethical uses of your data, using your data to tell a story, and more.
If you have any suggestions or ideas for future workshops and programs, email Andrew Carlos, Head of Research, Outreach, and Inclusion at acarlos@scu.edu
Terah J. Stewart, PhD (he/him) is a graduate faculty member and an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Iowa State University. He is also a faculty affiliate with Women and Gender Studies and the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. His research and writing focus on people, populations, and ideas that are hypermarginalized and/or those who have stigmatized identities. He also engages conceptual and empirical work on antiblackness in non-black communities of color. His work centers critical disruptive onto-epistemological frameworks and theories to destabilize dominant ways of knowing and being, including Black/endarkened feminist, womanist, and afropessimist perspectives. Dr. Stewart’s scholarship has often been called cutting-edge and groundbreaking work and he has won numerous awards for the same.
Bina Patel Shrimali is vice president of Community Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and serves as the Bank’s community affairs officer. In this role, she provides leadership and strategic direction for the Community Development team’s research and engagement initiatives to improve economic outcomes for people facing barriers to economic opportunity. She oversees the team’s efforts in priority areas of healthy and resilient communities, a thriving labor force, and inclusive financial systems.
Bina previously managed the Community Development research team at the San Francisco Fed, providing guidance for the department’s research agenda and publications. Her prior research topics include systemic economic barriers underlying racial birth disparities, child care’s role in enabling economic participation, and estimations of state-level GDP gains from closing racial and gender gaps in the labor market.
Prior to joining the San Francisco Fed, Bina worked at the Alameda County Public Health Department where she launched projects focused on addressing neighborhood and economic factors to improve health for young children and families, several of which have been nationally recognized and duplicated in other parts of the country. She led local implementation of a national neighborhood-based project in East Oakland called Best Babies Zone.
Bina received her BA in Economics and English, Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Doctorate in Public Health, all from UC Berkeley.