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Meet Janet Bland, PhD, DataKind's Senior Education Implementation Manager. With decades of experience spanning faculty, academic leadership, and higher education consulting, Janet brings a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing toda

Meet Allison Hirata, DataKind's Director, Product Management. As our first product management leader, Allison is helping establish the processes, systems, and cross-functional ways of working that enable DataKind to build and deliver enterprise products a

Beacon is DataKind's new, expanded local data platform, shaped by years of learning and co-development alongside practitioners and evolving DataKind's earlier community data infrastructure efforts into a more collaborative, action-oriented experience. Des

Humanitarian and disaster response organizations are increasingly asking not whether AI matters, but how to make it useful in practice. The opportunity is significant: AI can help teams synthesize fragmented information, draft reports more quickly, commun

By Sathy Rajasekharan, Vice President, Transformational Programs and Support, Parkinson Canada and former Independent Expert Advisor, Climate and Health, DataKind Mignonne Fowlis, Senior Manager, Product and Programs, DataKind In Kajiado County, Kenya, pr

By Shanna Lee, Senior Director, US Communities, DataKind Jenrose Fitzgerald, Program Manager, Data for Social Impact, Washington University in St. Louis Dan Ferris, PhD, Co-Director of Policy Education and Practice; Associate Professor of Practice, Washin

Woodman is the second president in the Bellevue, Wash.-based organization's 10-year history and will report to founder Steve Ballmer when she starts April 20.

By Lauren Woodman, CEO, DataKind After nearly five years leading DataKind, I'll be stepping down at the end of this month. It's a bittersweet moment and an opportunity to reflect - not only on the extraordinary people behind this organization, but also on

Research consistently shows that food insecurity and poor health are closely linked to economic instability - affecting everything from employment continuity to long-term mobility. Addressing these challenges requires more than isolated interventions or s

By Lauren Woodman, CEO, DataKind In the social sector, data is everywhere - dashboards, reports, metrics, models. But for many nonprofit leaders, the question isn't whether data exists. It's whether it actually helps them make better decisions. Too often,