Civil Society: Using Data and Education to Mobilize Communities to Eliminate Social Disparities

Data is not used effectively or collaboratively in the social justice ecosystem. When used strategically, data provides a common language upon which community members can meet and increase their knowledge about the causes and work together to create equitable change and increased awareness.

Our guest this episode will be Meme (mee-mee) Styles,President and Founder of the award winning nonprofit MEASURE, a public education & advocacy organization that empowers people to use data to tell their own story. Mrs. Styles created MEASURE in 2015 to build trust and measurable progress between people and institutions that serve them. MEASURE is building an ecosystem whereby Black and Brown-led nonprofits can receive data & evaluation support through MEASURE’s equity-focused tools for free. The organization is also responsible for mobilizing communities to address systemic disparities in health, economics, criminalization & education.

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Civil Society is a podcast exploring provocative themes with people who are changing our nonprofit sector for the better. Moderated by Barry Silverberg, Center for Nonprofit Studies at Austin Community College Director, it asks the real and tough questions that need to be addressed.