CSPS Digital Academy Events/Removing Bias and Building Trust in Your Data (Rebroadcast) - Speaker Biographies

Date and time: January 15, 2021 | 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm (ET)

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Speaker Biographies

	Lynn Barr-Telford Assistant Chief Statistician, Social, Health and Labour Statistics, Statistics Canada Lynn Barr-Telford is the Assistant Chief Statistician of the Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field at Statistics Canada.  Lynn holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Carleton University and has several years of experience as a senior Executive with responsibility for large, complex statistical programs. The Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field provides accurate, timely and relevant information across a range of social subject matters to decision makers at all levels of government, to non- governmental organizations, to researchers and to the Canadian public. The portfolio includes a number of large survey and administrative data programs such as the Centre for Population Health Data; the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics; the Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion; and the Centre for Labour Market Information, among others.  The Field is also the home for Canadian Census content expertise.
	Shingai Manjengwa Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fireside Analytics Inc Shingai Manjengwa is the Chief Executive Officer of Fireside Analytics Inc., a data science education solutions company that develops customized programs that teach digital and AI literacy, data science, data privacy, and computer programming. Clients include corporates, governments, non-profits, higher education institutions, and high schools. Data science courses by Fireside Analytics have over 450,000 registered learners on platforms like IBM’s CognitiveClass.ai and Coursera. A data scientist by profession, Shingai is the Technical Education Specialist at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto and she is also the founder of Fireside Analytics Academy, a registered private high school that helps other high schools develop data science programs. Shingai’s children’s book, ‘The Computer and the Cancelled Music Lessons’ teaches data science to kids from ages 5 to 12. Shingai holds a Master’s degree in Business Analytics from NYU’s Stern School of Business and she is this year’s recipient of the Public Policy Forum, ‘Emerging Leader’ award. You can find Shingai on twitter: @Tjido
	Ima Okonny Chief Data Officer, Employment and Social Development Canada Ima, the Chief Data Officer at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), has over 20 years of experience in the field of data. She has extensive experience with building the evidence base through the development of analytical databases, building analytical tools, implementing departmental data reporting and release strategies, data management, data privacy protocols and with forward-looking policy development and research. Ima has an educational background in Mathematics, Computer Programming and Public Management and during her time with the Government of Canada, she has received several nominations and awards for her leadership and results. She is passionate about developing and empowering multidisciplinary teams to unleash concrete business value from data.
	Tawana Petty Tawana Petty, National Organizing Director, Data for Black Lives Tawana Petty is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy, data and digital privacy rights education and racial justice and equity work. She is the National Organizing Director at Data for Black Lives, former director of the Data Justice Program at Detroit Community Technology Project, co-founder of Our Data Bodies, a convening member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, an anti-racism facilitator with Detroit Equity Action Lab, a Digital Civil Society Lab fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) and director of Petty Propolis, a Black woman led artist incubator primarily focused on cultivating visionary resistance through poetry, literacy and literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives.
	Amy Hawn Nelson Ph.D, Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy Amy Hawn Nelson is Research Faculty and Director of Training and Technical Assistance for Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), an initiative of the University of Pennsylvania that that helps state and local governments collaborate and responsibly use data to improve lives. Prior to joining AISP in 2017, Dr. Hawn Nelson directed the Institute for Social Capital at UNC Charlotte, charged with supporting data-informed decision-making in the Charlotte region. Previously, she served as a teacher and school leader. She is a community engaged researcher and has presented and written extensively on data integration and intersectional topics related to educational equity.