DATA: Data action to advocacy

This project partnered scholars from University of Pittsburgh and a group of Black youth to co-design a data advocacy toolkit (curriculum and technology) by engaging them with data and technical skills to create advocacy messages for personally relevant community issues. The co-design sessions explored the affordances of data literacy and advocacy that the youth consider important for the toolkit design, cultivated job-ready skills and fostered a stronger sense of civic identity among the youth. The lessons were used to develop a web-based data advocacy application that supports and affords critical data literacy.