Advancing knowledge and practice wherever people interact with information and technology

We asked several I School faculty members to recommend reading that can help us understand how information studies, data science, and cybersecurity intersect with race, racism, and anti-racism.

From The New Jim Crow to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave these works reveal the workings of systematic racism, inequality and bias in technology and academia, and our individual roles in being actively anti-racist members of society.

The School of Information has established a group of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) student representatives for each degree program at the School. The representatives will participate in monthly committee meetings with faculty and staff, engage with prospective students in webinars and in-person events like orientation, and develop and work on student-led DEIB initiatives.

These students, self-nominated and elected by their peers, will represent the needs and interests of current and prospective I School students in their degree program, with particular attention to students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in higher education and information, data science, and cybersecurity.