BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:154-8212@cure.camden.rutgers.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T180000 DTSTAMP:20231011T143250Z URL:https://cure.camden.rutgers.edu/events/breaking-barriers-holistic-thin king-around-data-informed-communities/ SUMMARY:Breaking Barriers: Holistic Thinking Around Data-Informed Communiti es DESCRIPTION:The CoLab Initiative is a data-informed community engagement ho sted by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in the District Atto rney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab. This initiative fosters partne rships between the DATA Lab and community-based organizations in Philadelp hia by hosting workshops to provide data tools and engage in participatory research exercises. The main priorities of the DATA CoLab are: 1) to enha nce the community partners’ capacity to use data to inform programming a nd advocacy efforts within their communities and 2) to elevate the experie nces of community stakeholders and needs of various communities to inform data-driven policymaking. This project is intended to be place-based and c ommunity-driven.\nThe CoLab Initiative was piloted in the Germantown neigh borhood of Philadelphia from 2020-2022 and has been recently funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency “PCCD” from 2023-202 6 to expand to Kensington\, West\, and Southwest sections of the city. For this seminar\, Mariel will discuss the CoLab model\, the implementation o f the piloted initiative\, lessons learned and the work ahead.\nAbout the speaker\nMariel Delacruz (she/her/ella) is a third-year Criminal Justice P h.D. scholar at Temple University. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Crim inology\, Psychology and Sociology from Cabrini University and a Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University-Camden. Mariel ha s held several positions in direct services\, advocacy\, policy\, and rese arch. Mariel’s focus areas include critical criminology\, community-base d participatory research\, victimization\, wrongful convictions\, policy\, youth\, and young adults. Mariel’s goals\, both in academia and in her applied work\, is to center and amplify the voices and experiences of Blac k\, Latinx and communities of color. Mariel is a co-founder and committee member of the newly established New Jersey Innocence Project affiliated wi th the Rutgers-Camden Law School.\n \;\n\n \;\nThis event is cospo nsored by the Rutgers–Camden Department of Sociology\, Anthropology\, an d Criminal Justice. LOCATION:Honors College\, 319 Cooper Street\, Camden\, NJ\, 08102\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=319 Cooper Street\, Camden\ , NJ\, 08102\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Honors College:geo :0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR