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DataCenter
| 1904 Franklin St. Ste. 900 Oakland, CA 94612 |
phone: 510-835-4692 email: datacenter@datacenter.org website: www.datacenter.org |
Founded in 1977, DataCenter is a research justice movement institution that builds the capacity of communities to elevate their voices in policymaking through democratization of research and documentation. When research justice is achieved, community expertise is defined on community terms, and is politically legitimate on par with all other institutions of society.
Shared Leadership Case Study: DataCenter
March 5, 2010, 11:28 am
excerpt taken from Bella Celnik’s Blog In October 2009, at a Leadership Learning Community (LLC) Bay Area Circle, Miho Kim and Celia Davis of the DataCenter shared their learning about the “Sh... (Read more)
Khmer Girls for Action: Second Data Workshop
March 3, 2010, 11:49 am
“Duh!” written on numerous post-its were placed on a human body drawn on butcher paper. The body was one of three, each one representing a different audience that would receive findings from the... (Read more)
National Domestic Workers Alliance Project
March 3, 2010, 11:48 am
In 2003, DataCenter was approached by the Domestic Workers United to partner on a participatory, worker-led research project to document the working conditions of domestic workers in New York City. ... (Read more)
Updates on Da Town Researchers
February 26, 2010, 11:02 am
By Noemi Bravo Watch: Oakland High School Student Interview; Student-Teacher Fishbowl Skyline HS Download: Town Researchers 2010 Calendar in pdf format. Da Town Researchers are moving into Phase Two o... (Read more)
Indigenous Knowledge – Youth Research Justice Camp
February 5, 2010, 5:07 pm
By Nadine Padilla, Coordinator, MASE (Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment) Coalition, Albuquerque, NM. DataCenter and Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) partnered in late ... (Read more)
Welcome to Board Member Max Weintraub
November 10, 2009, 4:27 pm
Max is a toxics officer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He founded the Environmental Justice and Health Union and is an instructor for the environmental justice course at UC Berkeley.... (Read more)
The First West Coast Domestic Workers Congress
November 5, 2009, 4:37 pm
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is an alliance of domestic and household workers in the United States and is a vehicle to build power nationally as a workforce. Many of its member organi... (Read more)
Shared Leadership Series
November 4, 2009, 2:53 pm
The motto “be the change you want to see in the world” has manifested in DataCenter’s Shared Leadership Model since 2006. With a Design Team comprised of representatives from Bay Area social j... (Read more)
Documenting the Khmer Youth Experience
November 4, 2009, 1:18 pm
Khmer Girls for Action works primarily with young girls of Southeast Asian descent in the Long Beach area in Southern California. Most are from low income, immigrant and/or refugee families and face ... (Read more)
Sustaining Organizing Study
November 4, 2009, 12:44 pm
Sustaining Organizing Study (SOS): A Strategic Social Justice Movement Assessment Building the Social Justice Movement: Our Knowledge Will Not Be Televised… For the first twenty years of its existen... (Read more)