a screening
of coded bias

and Q&A with Director Shalini Kantayya

may 25th

11 am to 12 pm (CST)

Join us for a virtual trailer screening of the documentary Coded Bias, which explores bias and racism built into tech tools like facial recognition. We'll be joined by director Shalini Kantayya and will have a chance to learn more from her an intimate conversation led by Sharon Kennedy Vickers and Antoinette Smith of Techquity.

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Shalini Kantayya

Director of Coded Bias

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya´s Coded Bias, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. She directed for the National Geographic television series Breakthrough, Excecutive Produced by Ron Howard, broadcast globally in June 2017. Her debut, Catching the Sun, premiered at the LA Film Festival and was named a NY Times Critick´s Pick. Catching the Sun released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio, and was nominated for the Environmental Media Association Award of the Best Documentary. Kantayya is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fullbright Scholar, and an Associate of the UC Berkley Graduate School of Journalism.

 

Trailer

 
 

This event is open to the public and brought forth by our partners Software for Good, Techquity, and Open Twin Cities, with support from Granicus and the Center for Civic Innovation.