Tag: essay
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The Power | No Justice…No Pie, No Justice…
No peace. Yesterday was 3.14, March 14th— pie day to most math-heads and nerds. Today is March 15th, two days and two years after Breonna Taylor was murdered by a police officer, while she was sleepin in her apartment. Yesterday was 3.14, and for Tracy and Sybrina, they’ve spent 10 years forgettin a day mathematicians,…
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The Power | Generational Leadership
Were no strangers to change, disruption, and greatness. No my family is full of some of the grittiest, daring, and loving folks to walk on land in the Western Hemisphere. I myself owe my namesake, Azeem عظيم (meaning great in Arabic), to those before me and have been graciously bond to a life of greatness!…
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The Power | Imagining Alternative Future(s)
If I could go back to these moments where I learned how creative and freeing tech could be I would! A brief and hopefully edifying look back at my start in tech and how I lead. The power of imagining different. What was the situation? Out of undergrad I was hired to be the experiential…
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The Power | “Be an Athlete, Son!”
“Keep your head on a swivel,” probably the greatest lessons I learned playing “QB”, but not the only lesson I carry from my years of athletics and leadership. I am, what you would call, a super nerd. I prefer “blerd”. I’ve always known I was a super nerd, my pops showed me I could ball,…
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The Power | Holding Space
Granny, rather Nancy, left Virginia on a train to New York for a job. Her ticket would have cost her half her age in dollars back the ,but the 17 year old rode for free; complements of the new job up north. She took a risk and took a ticket to New York. Eventually her…
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The Power | Why I Chose Learning & Service
My bet on data in education, and how it will power future-ready philanthropy. Regardless to any title I’ll carry in my professional career and personal life I’ve committed myself to the idea that I will always strive to be a philanthropist. I am a man for others that believes that improving the lives of those…
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What does algorithmic justice mean to you?
A brief Timeline of Computational, technological and algorithmic bias.⬆️ I’m a black man who was born a black boy who was born to a family from Virginia and I know the impact of systems on excellence. It’s only recently that I learned the power of data erasure in my personal life let alone the power…
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Board of Ancestors| John Dewey on Experience and Philosophy
Reflections on American Education Philosophy Board of Ancestors is a blog series, where I reflect on my role models, my philosophical influences and inspiring peers. It’s part of our Meet the Founder Series. Dewey places himself in the middle of the debate regarding the American education system during the 20thcentury. Dewey urges readers to step…
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Board of Ancestors| Anna J Cooper + The Relationship between Our Reasoning, Feelings, Actions, and Education
Reflections on Anna J. Cooper’s Educational Philosophy on reason, emotions and action. Anna Julia Cooper’s education philosophy centers on the importance of empathy. In the context of education and society more broadly, Cooper discusses the role of “feeling” being an improvement to educational quality rather than a handicap. This directly contrasts the western philosophy of…
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Board of Ancestors | Reflections on W.E.B DuBois and the “Spiritual Strivings” of Black Folk
Anyone of substance in my life, that is anyone I care to share my deepest philosophies with know my deep admiration for the thoughts and woks of WEB DuBois. Du Bois’s Soul of Black Folks is an attempt to coalesce multiple disciplines into a series of essays. Soul of Black Folks is part historical text,…