MASSACHUSETTS

A lecture by Ramzi Jaber, who is the cofounder of Visualizing Impact, an interdisciplinary organization that specializes in data visualization, technology and data journalism creating visual stories on social justice issues . www.visualizingimpact.org

Launched in 2012, VP is the first portfolio of Visualizing Impact (VI) an independent, non-profit laboratory for innovation at the intersection of data science, technology, and design.Visualizing Palestine creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Researchers, designers, technologists, and communications specialists work in partnership with civil society actors to amplify their impact and promote justice and equality.

Ramzi is also cofounder of onlinecensorship.org, a space where communities crowdsource instances of censorship enacted by private online platforms. OC has recently won the Knight News Challenge.
<http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201499906/>.

During the Spring of 2012 he was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law as a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Ramzi has also just been recently selected as an Ashoka Fellow and has been featured by Creative Commons.