Assistant Professor of Data Analytics
Dr. Thema Monroe-White, Ph.D. is an evaluator, instructor and race scholar. Dr. White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Data Analytics at Berry College and Academic Director of the Campbell Center for Data Analytics. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she examines the entrepreneurial, workforce and educational pathways of racially minoritized groups in science, engineering and information technology fields. Her research is concerned with understanding the innovative pathways for achieving social and economic justice for minoritized groups via data literacy, STEM education, and entrepreneurship. Dr. White has received multiple federal grants to study racial equity in entrepreneurship and STEM fields and has been named a special government employee data scientist for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. She holds a Ph.D. in science, technology, and innovation policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as Master's and Bachelor’s degrees from Howard University.
Selected Publications
Recent Publications:
- Monroe-White, T.,* & Lecy, J. (2022). The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 1-15.
- Kozlowski, D., Larivière, V., Sugimoto, C. R., & Monroe-White, T.* (2022). Intersectional inequalities in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(2), e2113067119.
- Monroe-White, T.* (2021). Emancipatory data science: a liberatory framework for mitigating data harms and fostering social transformation. In Proceedings of the 2021 on Computers and People Research Conference (pp. 23-30).
Other Notable Features:
- Kwon, D. (2022). The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references fairer. Nature, 603(7902), 568-571.
- Flaherty, C. (2022). How Identity Shapes Science. Inside Higher Ed.
- Saizow, H. (2022). Episode 17: The criticality of pairing social science and algorithmic work. Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) “Justice Talks” Podcast.