Tech Pioneer Latanya Sweeney's Advice to Her Younger Self

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“I stopped caring about why someone wasn’t doing right by me, or giving me the same opportunities or whatever, or just treating me unfairly.” Tech Pioneer LatanyaSweeney’s advice to her younger self:

Advice to Her Younger Self features female leaders who are harnessing the power of technology to drive change—and want to help the next generation do the same. These experts are using tech to build better communities and a better world as active members of the new field called Public Interest Technology, and they’re opening up to us about what they’ve learned along the way. This series is produced in partnership with the Ford Foundation.

“That simple experiment ended up doing the opposite, showing that data could be re-identified,” she says. “The next day I was testifying before Congress.” A Pennsylvania woman was arrested for illegal wiretapping after she strapped the device to her child’s body so she would have proof about school-bus bullying. A bystander in Boston was similarly charged when his Camcorder caught audio tape, in addition to video, of police arresting a protestor.

Raised by great-grandparents in Nashville, Sweeney left Tennessee for an all-girls Massachusetts boarding school when her great-grandparents passed away. She excelled at math and for college, she headed to MIT, where she “was usually the only black or the only female in my classes,” a kind of unicorn whom professors, accustomed to students who resembled themselves, didn’t quite know how to or find interest in mentoring.

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