Publications

Scholarship emerging from the Data Activism Program and liberatory computing research.

Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education

Raechel Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2025. Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 78–89. https://doi.org

Liberatory Computing for African American Students (Awarded Best Position Paper)

Walker, R., Sherif, E., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Liberatory computing education for African American students. 2022 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 85–89.

Unveiling Voices: Boston Students’ Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts

Raechel Walker, Sophia Brady, Olivia Dias, Adriana Castillo, Kaleb Asfaw, Elijah Johnson (2024). IEEE

Alleviating the Danger Of A Single Story Through Liberatory Computing Education

Raechel Walker, Olivia Dias, Matthew Taylor, Cynthia Breazeal (2024). Liberatory computing education for African American students. 2024 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 169–178.