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Tawana Petty
An author, poet, social justice organiser, and youth advocate whose goal is mapped to invoking change in a society were systematic racism is profound. Some of her recent works include; director for Data for Black Lives, practitioner fellow at Stanford PACS, member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, and founder of Petty Propolis.

In light of police brutality against black individuals, Petty and other researchers like Deborah Raji, Ruha Benjamin are working towards putting an end to the use of survillence technologies like facial recognition in policing. The failure of these technologies to correctly identify darker male and female individuals raises the concern that these algorithms are biased against black individuals.

Publications
Author of four books


 * Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-racism Organizing
 * Introducing Honeycomb
 * Coming Out My Box
 * Petty Propolis Reader

== Awards ==


 * 2011 Spirit of Detroit Award
 * 2011 Women Creating Caring Communities Award
 * 2012 The Woman of Substance Award
 * 2015 Detroit Awesome Award
 * 2016 University of Michigan Black Law Student Association's Justice Honoree Award