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Thank You! – Housing AI Equity

Thank you for signing up to get involved with our housing AI equity work! One of our organizers will reach out to you shortly. In the meantime, you can get started by signing up… Read More

Project Manager, Events & Special Projects

NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Remote position TechEquity Collaborative is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising public consciousness about economic equity issues that result from the tech industry’s products and practices, and advocating for change that ensures tech’s evolution benefits everyone. We envision a world where the tech industry is responsible… Read More

Community conversations: “Corporate Auntie” Yolanda speaks out

Our communities are often left out of the decision-making conversations that impact our day-to-day lives. TechEquity works with workers and renters to center their voices in public policy solutions and industry regulations. Storytelling has the power to shape the future. Knowing this, our TechEquity community has bravely come forward… Read More

Community conversations: Dani shares what contract work is really like

Our communities are often left out of the decision-making conversations that impact our day-to-day lives. TechEquity works with workers and renters to center their voices in public policy solutions and industry regulations. Storytelling has the power to shape the future. Knowing this, our TechEquity community has bravely come forward… Read More

Danya Sherbini joins TechEquity

We’re excited to announce that Danya Sherbini has joined TechEquity as our new Vice President of Data and Technology. In this role, Danya will develop data strategies to support our programmatic work. Leveraging her technical expertise and experience in data science, policy, and social impact, she will collect and analyze… Read More

Swati Chintala

Swati Chintala is the Research Manager for the Labor Program at TechEquity. She is passionate about understanding how new forms of technology shape work and impact workers. She comes to TechEquity Collaborative with over ten years of experience researching informal and precarious work and advocating for workers in the Global… Read More

Danya Sherbini

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

The TechEquity story

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

Traditional vs. algorithmic tenant screening: What’s really the difference?

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

The tech we use matters: Why we support AI procurement standards (SB 892) in California and beyond

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