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Danya Sherbini is the Vice President of Data and Technology at TechEquity. She’s a data scientist and program manager with a decade of experience leveraging data to drive strategic insights across the technology, social impact, and public sectors. Before joining TechEquity, she completed her Master of Public Policy degree at… Read More

TechEquity was founded in 2016 to answer a simple but ambitious question: what would it take for the growth of the tech industry to benefit everyone?   Tackling that question led us down many paths—some that became obvious very quickly, like the need to address the housing affordability crisis in and… Read More

A lawsuit filed in Florida alleged that the tenant-screening algorithms used by a large local landlord discriminate against Black rental applicants. Meanwhile, housing voucher recipients in Massachusetts recently sued SafeRent, arguing that their algorithmic tenant screening program (the “SafeRent Score”) disproportionately discriminated against them. And it didn’t go… Read More

Governments across the country are using AI to determine everything from who gets unemployment to who is investigated by Child Protective Services. In California, the Department of Transportation recently awarded its first generative AI contract in the state’s history, aiming to improve safety on roadways. These consequential… Read More

Algorithms are increasingly determining things like where we live, how we work, and who gets arrested. These are highly consequential decisions that are being automated at a massive scale. But these algorithms have bias hard-coded into them—from the code itself to the data these algorithms are… Read More

In Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ stores, sensors and deep learning were supposed to dispense with the need for employees and even self-checkout machines. Behind the seeming automation, however, were a thousand contract workers in India who watched videos of customers and reviewed transactions to train the machine learning algorithm. Read More

As AI floods every sector, automated decision-making and artificial intelligence systems are powered by massive amounts of data that aren’t shared back with the people from whom they collect that data. And, we already know that AI systems have a tendency to discriminate against already-vulnerable communities, in healthcare, the criminal legal system,… Read More

Why People-First AI? AI is poised to change the entire tech industry landscape—and with it, the global economy. Generative AI, automation, and algorithms are making their way into every facet of life, from housing and healthcare to elections and workplaces. Workers are worried about the security of their jobs. Renters… Read More

Why share your story? Stories are powerful. Hearing someone’s story can make people explore a different perspective, connect with an idea, change their perspective, or inspire someone else to share their own experience.  At TechEquity, stories of real people shape our work. We think it’s critical for everyday people to… Read More

How are we shaping the tech industry? The tech industry plays a consequential role in our society and within our communities. We want to see tech foster prosperity, not exacerbate harm. We’re addressing how tech intersects with the most consequential areas of the economy for everyday people: where they live… Read More