Leadership

Felicia A. Smith is the Head of Learning and Outreach at Stanford Libraries. She is a published author and as a Black librarian has written articles promoting racial literacy and introducing seldom explored minority stories. In the words of Ralph Ellison, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

"For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it."
- Amanda Gorman

Meet the team

We are a group of Stanford library staff and students dedicated to bringing the issues of systemic racism to the forefront so that we can enable our society to move forward and solve the problems that stem from decades of oppression. Contact us

Stanford Libraries Staff KSR Core Team

Catherine Nicole Coleman,
Data Architect

Astrid Usong,
UX Designer

Current Student Interns

Akosua Kissi '23

Senior majoring in Political Science at Stanford. She has been part of the lab since January working on standardizing data collection measurers and bringing in complimentary data points to our research on systemic racism.

Disha Shidham '24

Second year student majoring in Environmental Engineering with an interest in Geospatial Technology (GIS) and Humanities. As part of the Know Systemic Racism Project, Disha has analyzed and parsed LEA procedural policies using fine-tuned Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and Named Entity Recognition (NER) data extraction.

Mahogany Brown '24

Junior Majoring in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford. As part of the Know Systemic Racism Project, she has contributed to the website’s content and design, and has aided in overall data collection and organization for the project.

Thalia Rae Revilla '24

Junior majoring in Sociology with a focus on Data Science, Markets, and Management

Tian Hong Zhu Zhou '25

Sophomore majoring in Computer Science at De Anza College. As part of the Know Systemic Racism project, Tian has contributed to collecting, cleaning and uploading data to wikidata. He will continue working on the development of an application based on a Neo4j graph database for the project.

Tracy Wei '26

Frosh majoring in Symbolic Systems at Stanford

Alumni

Gabriela Basel

Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford. As part of the Know Systemic Racism project, she created the proof of concept for the knowledge graph showing connections between people across California whose lives were taken by police. She also collected and analyzed policy manuals from California law enforcement agencies to make internal policies more easily accessible to the public. Outside of her work with the library, Gabriela works with community organizations to decrease police presence and weaken the carceral state across Santa Clara County.

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