6. Averaged-out data = averaged-out people

Data Dialogues

Together in their full dialogue with Angela, Daphne Frias & Jarah Moesch swap stories about disability-related air travel data (or lack thereof) and bemoan the way things break when you look for quick fixes, whether it comes to climate change, disability access, or data visualization.

In Data Dialogues, we highlight two people working with environmental data and then put them in conversation with each other. Listen to this conversation on its own or pair it with Daphne Frias's conversation in Episode 4 and Jarah Moesch's conversation in Episode 5.

You can access a transcript of this episode and Show Notes on our website and join in the conversation on Twitter @OpenEnviroData and Instagram @OpenEnviroData!

Daphne Frias (she/her) is a 24-year-old youth activist. She is unapologetically Latina. Having Cerebral Palsy, and using a wheelchair to ambulate, she is fiercely proud to be a loud champion for the disabled community. She got her start shortly after the Parkland shooting by busing 100+ students from her college campus to the nearest March For Our Lives (MFOL) event. In August of 2019, she was appointed as the NY State Director for March For Our Lives.

Jarah Moesch (they/she) is an artist-scholar whose work explores issues of justice through the design, production, and acquisition of embodied knowledges. Jarah’s research incorporates queer crip theory, cultural studies, art, and design practices to develop new models for justice and to imagine new worlds.

Angela Eaton (she/her) is the Director of Data Inclusion at Open Environmental Data and host of Data Dialogues.