The Data Justice Scholars program fosters collaborative and community-engaged learning experiences for undergraduates. Students collaborate with community partners to consider the intersections between data-based research and social justice. Data skills are applied to strategically address community concerns and social inequities.
Services Provided
The program guides students to collectively analyze data sources useful to community partners who are organizing around social justice issues in Los Angeles. Data Justice Scholars offer trainings on how to directly work with open-source datasets.
Who We Serve
The program provides scholarships to undergraduate students (seniors and juniors) who then conduct data-based research around critical issues facing low-income communities of color in Los Angeles, including environmental rights, incarceration, policing, gender, and labor.
Mission and Goals
The Data Justice Scholars program guides undergraduate students to create collaborations with community partners. Projects focus on how to analyze open-source data sets for enacting social change in Los Angeles, particularly for social change and movement-based organizations seeking justice for low-income communities of color.
Year Founded
2022
Impact Statement
Since launching in 2022, the Data Justice Scholars program has offered eleven scholarships to UCLA undergraduates. These undergraduates have worked to create data-based analysis of green space in Chinatown; gentrification in the West Adams district; and reproductive rights.
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