On December 12, 2020, our planning team organized a discussion to join voices from our brave little state with 'Coded Bias' Director Shalini Kantayya and Meredith Broussard, who is featured in this film. You can watch that panel discussion at the video below:

Shalini Kantayya

Director/Producer Shalini Kantayya’s feature documentary, Coded Bias, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. She directed an episode of the National Geographic television series Breakthrough, Executive Produced by Ron Howard, broadcast globally in 2017. Her debut feature film Catching the Sun, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick. Catching the Sun released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo DiCaprio, and was nominated for the Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary. Additionally, Kantayya is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and a finalist for the ABC Disney DGA Directing Program. She is an Associate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Find more information about Shalini, here.

Meredith Broussard

Meredith Broussard is a data journalist, Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, and the author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.” She is an affiliate faculty member at the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, a 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow. She has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab.

Find more information about Meredith, here.

Traci Griffith (Traci Griffith will also moderate the discussion)

Traci is Associate Professor of Media Studies, Journalism & Digital Arts, and the Pre-Law Coordinator at Saint Michael's College. Her areas of expertise include Media law, Ethics in the media, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Racial and ethnic representation in media. Utilizing her law degree and years as a professional journalist, her teaching focuses on Media Law and Ethics in the Digital Age. The course focuses on the legal and ethical boundaries and parameters of modern media with particular attention to privacy, free speech and media and technology. She also created a special topics course on Race, Gender & Ethnicity in Media. The course studies the way media creates meaning about race, gender and ethnicity, and plays an important role in shaping the way we understand them as part of our identity, our history, our social institutions, and our everyday lives. Additionally, she has designed and led comparative media study trips to South Africa, Mongolia and China.

Find more information about Traci, here.

Randall Harp

Randall Harp is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Vermont, and is currently the 2020 Fulbright Canada/Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow/Joint Chair in Contemporary Public Policy. He does research in the philosophy of the behavioral and social sciences, social metaphysics, and data and technology ethics.

Find more information about Randall, here.

We'd love to see how this state-wide screening plays out in homes, organizations, and classes across the state. Please share pictures, ideas, and your 'Coded Bias' experience using the hashtag:

#codedbiasvt

'Coded Bias' on the web

A Tweet sparked a group to connect online and then begin in earnest to plan together.

Contact us at codedbiasvt@gmail.com

We are grateful for the collaborative support to underwrite the screening of 'Coded Bias' across Vermont, the appearances of our four panelists, and related advertising.

We are also grateful for a dynamic group of organizations that amplified this film in Vermont.